Re: Kswapd flaw

[Paulo Marques]

Al Boldi wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:04:08PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
>
> > In 2.4.31 kswapd starts paging during OOMs even w/o swap enabled.
> >
> > Is there a way to fix/disable this behaviour?
>
>
> Marcelo,
>
> Kswapd starts evicting processes to fullfil a malloc, when it should just
> deny it because there is no swap.

I think what you really want is to adjust your "overcommit" settings.

See: "Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting"

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