Re: echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness triggers OOM killer under 2.6.14.

[Robert Hancock]

Rob Landley wrote:
> Under 2.6.14 (UML), I have a workload that runs with 64 megs ram and 256 megs 
> swap space.  It completes (albeit swapping like mad) with swappiness at the 
> default 60, but if I set it to 0 the OOM killer kicks in and the script 
> aborts.

You should get some debugging output in dmesg when the OOM killer kicks 
in, can you post this?

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