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From: "Al Boldi" <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: "'Marcelo Tosatti'" <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
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Subject: RE: Kswapd flaw
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:37:41 +0300
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:04:08PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> 
> In 2.4.31 kswapd starts paging during OOMs even w/o swap enabled.
> 
> Is there a way to fix/disable this behaviour?

Marcelo,

Kswapd starts evicting processes to fullfil a malloc, when it should just
deny it because there is no swap.