Re: VM nuisance

[David Ford]

Perhaps a tunable load value w/ kswapd?  If you're trying to accomplish 
more than N iterations of kswapd's particular function...take your pick, 
then make the OOM killer more trigger happy, perhaps on a sliding scale. 
 At least then -something- will get killed the harder we try to get 
pages.  As it is now, it's very likely the kernel get's stuck on itself 
for hours on end...sometimes never recovering.  I suspect the only 
reason why I recovered it was because I happened to have about 8 ssh 
sessions to other machines that I was able to kill them on.

David

Rik van Riel wrote:

>Actually the killer itself isn't the problem.
>
>It's deciding when to let it kick in.
>