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Title: lowmemorykiller killing processes when swap still available Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi there, I've upgraded a number of test systems to the latest Saucy beta. I've seen quite a few cases of processes being killed by lowmemorykiller with the following entries being logged: [ 291.565121] lowmemorykiller: send sigkill to 4476 (python), adj 0, size 8864 [23515.006794] lowmemorykiller: send sigkill to 944 (update-apt-xapi), adj 0, size 44175 The systems where this happens are kvm virtual machines with relatively modest amounts of RAM allocated (256 or 512 MB) with 2 GB swap. The swap is mostly unused when the kills occur. I searched around and could only find references to Android for lowmemorykiller and nothing on how to disable it. I tried the following without success: echo '9999,9999' > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj Any ideas on how to disable lowmemorykiller or at least prevent processes to be killed rather than swapped? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1235161/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
