Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:16:52 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Hardcore trashing without any swap |
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:10:33 +0200 László Monda <laci@monda.hu> wrote:
> Hi List, > > The problem I'm facing with is very simple, yet extremely irritating > in nature. I have a laptop with 4G RAM and I don't use any swap. > Whenever the RAM is full my system keeps trashing. This makes X and > SSH completely unresponsive for about a hour then a bunch of processes > gets killed and it's usable again. > > How is possible that my system is trashing even though I don't use any swap?
Because you don't have any swap. Its having to dump stuff it doesn't want to like bits of applications that it can retrieve back from disk.
> I'd expect the kernel to immediately kill the largest process without > any trashing so I could continue my work right after the event. How > is it possible to configure?
It isn't.
However if you want to avoid overcommit and thrashing play with
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