False OOM with swappiness == 0

From: Mikulas Patocka
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 12:13:01 EST


Hi

On one our server we've seen that OOM killer kills a process even if there's plenty of free swap space. The server had swappiness set to 0 which probably triggered the bug.

Mikulas
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