Re: OOM kills if swappiness set to 0, swap storms otherwise

From: Parag Warudkar
Date: Mon Mar 27 2006 - 23:09:39 EST


On Monday 27 March 2006 22:59, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd tentatively say that your options are to put up
> with the swapping or find a new mail client.

I tried mem=512m , swapoff -a and swappiness=0 and all works fine for me on
x86. I use Evolution and Firefox's KDE counterparts - in addition to that
Amarok, Kopete and Akregator fit in too.

Lee - Perhaps you are running fat 64 bit code?

Parag
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