Re: /proc/sys/vm/swappiness == 0 makes OOM killer go beserk

On 1/13/06, Jim MacBaine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the OOM killer just killed some of my processes while the system still
> had >2.5 GB of free swap. I'm running vanilla 2.6.15 on my desktop.
> The machine is a single Athlon64, 1 GB RAM, 3 GB swap, x86_64 kernel,

This is ok. When the swappiness variable  is set to zero kernel does
not try to swap out processes. So once all memory is used up by
processes it can not free up memory by swapping and hence had to kill
process.

Regards
Ram Gupta
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