Re: Let's talk about the elephant in the room - the Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure

On 8 August 2019 12:48:26 BST, Michal Hocko wrote: >> >> Per default, the OOM killer will engage after 15 seconds of at least >> 80% memory pressure. These values are tunable via sysctls >> vm.thrashing_oom_period and vm.thrashing_oom_level. > >As I've said earlier I would be somehow more comf

Re: Let's talk about the elephant in the room - the Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure

On 8 August 2019 17:32:28 BST, Michal Hocko wrote: > >> Would it be possible to reserve a fixed (configurable) amount of RAM >for caches, > >I am afraid there is nothing like that available and I would even argue >it doesn't make much sense either. What would you consider to be a >cache? A kern