From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422734AbWAMQc6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:32:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422735AbWAMQc6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:32:58 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.205]:8411 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422734AbWAMQc5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:32:57 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=smh2F8rYKNxzWW9oEnrdDrY60vpVNjDoeCV4c8CThIbCvjTPW/2fGiK8kozQbhhGISzaa3iYWrDm6L7EB+vSU9MLY+QlnC4vY5JXw1SDFbwQZuWD9XUEIH+cu727JYmLfRBltyRNLvHwgNoJyhMOkBrcnXktV15rF0ZfDp+11jE= Message-ID: <728201270601130832h37eae980hc4e0d3de7522c81e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:32:55 -0600 From: Ram Gupta To: Jim MacBaine Subject: Re: /proc/sys/vm/swappiness == 0 makes OOM killer go beserk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3afbacad0601130755x507047eeqfdcfb1e54a163cdd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <3afbacad0601130755x507047eeqfdcfb1e54a163cdd@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/13/06, Jim MacBaine 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