On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 6:40 PM John M. Harris Jr <johnmh(a)splentity.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, January 8, 2020 12:24:23 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
> Looks like PSI based oom killing doesn't work without swap. Therefore
> oomd can't be considered a universal solution. Quite a lot of
> developers have workstations with quite a decent amount of RAM,
> ~64GiB, and do not use swap at all. Server baremetal are likewise
> mixed, depending on workloads, and in cloud it's rare for swap to
> exist.
While it's true some systems without swap are possible, it's not common,
except in the case of virtual machines, in which case it depends heavily on
the vendor.
Nearly all of our servers don't have swap in $DAYJOB's server fleet
(thousands of servers). In my experience, it's an increasingly common
thing.
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