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
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