Hi All,
I have a server that has its swappiness set to 0. It is running a little tight on memory and so there have been a couple of events where the OOM_killer has been invoked and killed off MySQL, which you would expect.
Now if you have your swappiness at 0 then "A value of 0 instructs the kernel not to initiate swap until the amount of free and file-backed pages is less than the high water mark in a zone."[1]
So even in this event should I expect to start swapping instead of invoking the oom_killer?
Is the logic Memory request -> OOM - > Can I swap? Y-> swap N-> OOM-Killer
Or as the OOM-Killer there to prevent an OOM Condition, that as the OOM Condition is prevented by killing mysql and therefore we will never swap?
Any clarification on how this all works in this situation would be most helpful.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documen...
Kind Regads