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

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Rob Landley wrote:
Under 2.6.14 (UML), I have a workload that runs with 64 megs ram and 256 megs swap space. It completes (albeit swapping like mad) with swappiness at the default 60, but if I set it to 0 the OOM killer kicks in and the script aborts.

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

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