Re: OOM-killer not being involked under memory pressure

[Pariksheet Nanda <pariksheet.nanda@protonmail.com>]

Hi Stefan,

>> My crystal ball says that you're not running out of RAM, but you're
>> hitting a nasty bug instead. I hope I'm wrong.
>
> Perhaps there's a ZFS bug or misconfiguration that happens before the OOM-killer has the chance to be involked. The encryption support is a relatively new feature and I wonder how it behaves with swap.

I just checked my other server which has ZFS on root without encryption, and see that I did not enable swap at all on that machine.  So I'll disable swap, thrash the RAM with `stress`, and then hopefully the OOM-killer works like it does on that machine.


>> Stefan
>
> Pariksheet

Pariksheet