Re: echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness triggers OOM killer under 2.6.14.

Rob Landley wrote:

Under 2.6.14 (UML), I have a workload that runs with 64 megs ram and 256 megsswap space. It completes (albeit swapping like mad) with swappiness at thedefault 60, but if I set it to 0 the OOM killer kicks in and the scriptaborts.

You should get some debugging output in dmesg when the OOM killer kicksin, can you post this?


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