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death by swap

Posted Nov 6, 2009 6:35 UTC (Fri) by motk (subscriber, #51120)
In reply to: death by swap by jabby
Parent article: Toward a smarter OOM killer

CPU states: 73.2% idle, 16.4% user, 10.4% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 64G real, 2625M free, 62G swap in use, 40G swap free

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death by swap

Posted Nov 6, 2009 8:43 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

I take it you don't have any out-of-control processes allocating memory there, do you? I wasn't saying it doesn't work in the general case :)