Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750972AbWC1EMV (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:12:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751095AbWC1EMV (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:12:21 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net ([204.127.192.84]:30853 "EHLO rwcrmhc14.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750972AbWC1EMU (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:12:20 -0500 From: Parag Warudkar To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: OOM kills if swappiness set to 0, swap storms otherwise Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:12:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Lee Revell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1143510828.1792.353.camel@mindpipe> <20060327195905.7f666cb5.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060327195905.7f666cb5.akpm@osdl.org> X-Face: M;&!dfz|m-o'K\Cz\J=6-U&/;8+edm=snaTAX=*NtQpWX@=?utf-8?q?156L1=25mHDt3XI=25X!5Hw3U+pe=0A=09nazcjJnz?=>75*V8\Sz\]3brW#a+Oa,8P7p6L+sVZkP;ZwyeKR0o`*#k2zD&!2Mn,0d3<=?utf-8?q?7qa=0A=096=25?=>g:?bp|XU>`.|?x2l;ounL%k85T/KB"2a|vqpcO*?ngOt-V0Lo5nTA{)=?utf-8?q?k+Pm=7CokhK=60=5BikO=0A=09=3BlvKCYCBdfs=7EQ?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603272312.18252.kernel-stuff@comcast.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 16 On Monday 27 March 2006 22:59, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'd tentatively say that your options are to put up > with the swapping or find a new mail client. I tried mem=512m , swapoff -a and swappiness=0 and all works fine for me on x86. I use Evolution and Firefox's KDE counterparts - in addition to that Amarok, Kopete and Akregator fit in too. Lee - Perhaps you are running fat 64 bit code? Parag - 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/