Hi Linux-Fan, >>> I just checked my other server which has ZFS on root without encryption, >>> and see that I did not enable swap at all on that machine. So I'll disable >>> swap, thrash the RAM with `stress`, and then hopefully the OOM-killer works >>> like it does on that machine. >> >> Yay! Indeed disabling swap allowed the OOM-killer to work. > > I am planning on using ZFS, too, so would you mind a follow-up question > about your setup: Is your swap on a ZFS volume?
Yes, the swap was on the ZFS volume, from my following the ZFS on Linux guide linked earlier. > I have heard there are bugs with Swap-on-ZFS which may cause lockups similar > to what you describe: > > https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/342 > https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/7734 Thank you for the links! I started reading the zfs-discuss mailing list and completely neglected the GitHub tracker. >>> Pariksheet >> Pariksheet > Linux-Fan Pariksheet
