Re: Debian 10 (Buster) and Swappiness
Hi.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 03:53:55PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 22 aug 19, 09:21:31, Gustavo - Emar wrote:
> > Hi,
> > After upgrading from Debian Stretch to Buster (10), we realize that it is
> > not managing memory as before.
> > First, even with Swappiness = 0 and having 32 Ram, (16 Gb using) it starts
> > using Swap
>
> <joke>
> If you don't want it using swap you should just disable it.
> </joke>
A bad joke, if we're talking a server here ;)
> > and the system is slow and crashing.
>
> There's not much information here to even start looking for the root
> casue. You might want to start telling us more about the system:
>
> * Is it identical hardware as used with stretch?
> * What is it used for
> * What init system (systemd, SysV, etc.)
> * How does a crash manifest (only specific software, the whole system,
> etc.)
> * Anything interesting in dmesg/logs/journal
> * etc.
I'd like to add that the contents of /proc/meminfo are extremely useful
in such cases.
Reco
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