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.
>
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