Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965012AbVKAEGr (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:06:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965014AbVKAEGr (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:06:47 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:41679 "EHLO pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965012AbVKAEGq (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:06:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:05:49 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness triggers OOM killer under 2.6.14. In-reply-to: <53vpu-s9-17@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <4366E99D.7070606@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <53vpu-s9-17@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 748 Lines: 19 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? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/