On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 4:31 PM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > Irrespective of the time taken, that could trigger the OOM killer, > couldn't it. Very risky, unless you're using two swaps as mentioned.
I was actually surprised to see this happen in a test right now. I *thought* that swapoff() would fail if reduce the available memory to below current usage. But indeed, the OOM Killer not only killed my test program, it took out the swapoff command for good measure! mrc
