Re: OOM-killer not being involked under memory pressure

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 25 Sep 2020 at 07:41:10 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:37:52 +0000 Pariksheet Nanda <pariksheet.nanda@protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I don't know how to empirically test that swap works
> 
> Try free. E.g.:
> 
> root@jhegaala:~# free
>               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
> Mem:           7860        5095         780         597        1985        1958
> Swap:         15623        2426       13197
> Total:        23484        7521       13977
> root@jhegaala:~# 
> 
> If swap is not enabled, the Swap line won't be there.
> 
> Or try htop.

$ /sbin/swapon --noheadings --show=name,type,size
/dev/dm-0 partition 499M

Cheers,
David.