processes are killed because of out of swap space

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at puchar.net
Mon Jan 6 10:03:54 UTC 2020


> context.
>
> If anyone is to work on geom_raid5, knowledge that:
>
> A) it was getting OOM kills that the other technique did not
> and:
> B) vm.pageout_oom_seq changes were controlling when
>
> likely would be useful background information. I
> wonder if a bugzilla report of such would be
> appropriate. (Some detail about the time frames
> for the alternative vm.pageout_oom_seq figures might
> be appropriate.)
>
> ===
geom_raid5 seems to be more buggy.

I was aware that it write buffers data so in case of power loss there 
would be damage, but i've set 3 second maximum caching time and got huge
destruction of underlaying filesystem (fsck displayed hundreds of 
thousands of errors).




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