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death by swap

death by swap

Posted Nov 4, 2009 18:21 UTC (Wed) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: death by swap by jabby
Parent article: Toward a smarter OOM killer

I think Ubuntu still do that by default :) Yes, the workaround for swapping to death is allocating no or little swap. I would hope though, that my "algorithm" above would reduce the need for workarounds though, by making sure that all non-hogging processes can have their working set in real memory.

Not sure that 32GB of swap would be appropriate even then though...


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death by swap

Posted Nov 6, 2009 11:40 UTC (Fri) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470) [Link]

>>> I think Ubuntu still do that by default :)

Yes Ubuntu still do that by default...despite many bug reports like mine.
Note that my bug report is old, very old (pre-Gutsy time) => https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-auto/+bug/134505
No reaction at all from the Ubuntu devs....very discouraging.

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