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From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory management issue on RPi?
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 05:25:37PM +0100, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> > On 12 Nov 2015, at 13:18, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is a known problem with the swap-less OOM.  The following patch
> > should give you an immediate relief.  You might want to tweak
> > sysctl vm.pageout_oom_seq if default value is not right, it was selected
> > by 'try and see' approach on very small (32 or 64MB) i386 VM.
> It just works... Will do some more testing...

I am more interested in report if OOM was triggered when it should.

Try running several instances of 'sort /dev/zero'.