Bug 206863 - without a swap oom killer starts without reason
Summary: without a swap oom killer starts without reason
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Memory Management
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86-64 Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: Andrew Morton
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Reported: 2020-03-16 17:29 UTC by john terragon
Modified: 2020-03-17 11:05 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 5.0.4
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Regression: No
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Description john terragon 2020-03-16 17:29:04 UTC 
In a machine with 64GB of ram and no swap the oom killer starts without a reason (I've seen it start with more than 30GB of free ram). This is particularly annoying because it seems to choose always the X server.


This does not happen if I create, say, a 3GB /dev/ram0 ramdisk and use it as swap.
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