8 Mar
2017
8 Mar
'17
6:48 p.m.
Hi Hendrik,
My experience when I end up swapping to a hard drive is that the whole
system becomes so slow and unresponsive that it mosstsly ignores console input, and I have no ability to kill things before the OOM does. Often the best way to get things moving again is a hard reset. And then watching it repair the filesystems.
well, in Linux 4.10 there is kind of a solution - writeback throttling allowing "skipping parts of the queue" as described in https://lwn.net/Articles/682582/ .
Cheers,
Jan