Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem...
by ars on Monday August 05, 2019 @11:51PM
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> I'm not sure how he's getting swap even with swap off
It's not data swap, it's executables. Linux knows it can reread the executable from disk if needed, so it uses those memory pages from other things, and reads them in when needed.
It's not data swap, it's executables. Linux knows it can reread the executable from disk if needed, so it uses those memory pages from other things, and reads them in when needed.