Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:11:04 +0100 From: Olivier Certner <olivier.freebsd@free.fr> To: Thierry Thomas <thierry@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The out-of-swap killer makes poor choices Message-ID: <6928973.CEzQG83mar@ravel> In-Reply-To: <YDZIuXCgcpbvm57d@graf.pompo.net> References: <CAOtMX2jYmrK7ftx62_NEfNCWS7O=giHKL1p9kXCqq1t5E1arxA@mail.gmail.com> <1984125.0OzZcVfBr4@ravel> <YDZIuXCgcpbvm57d@graf.pompo.net>
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> For such cases, another solution exists on Linux to dynamically enlarge > the swap partition (something like dphys-swapfile or SwapSpace - see > <https://github.com/Tookmund/Swapspace>; ), but I do not know if such a > tool exists on FreeBSD? In case there is some misunderstanding: I didn't want that in my particular case. Putting the machines to a crawl for jobs that mostly were too big anyway to survive even with swap indeed proved out to be a very bad idea. Also, removing swap was for me an occasion to test whether the absence of it was causing any change in the odd OOM killer behavior I was observing (unfortunately, as said, this was not the case). That said, I wasn't aware of these tools. Interesting to know. Thanks. -- Olivier Certner
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