On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 03:08:42PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > It looks like this is coming from the OpenVZ folks. They feel a > swapfile would negatively impact performance, so it is disabled. Yep, since this is not a full VM but rather a container, there is not much to do other than buying a bigger VPS. > (I'm not sure how a DoS is considered a good result, given an OOM kill > just about always knocks out MySQL). Swap in a way converts memory access into disk IO. And since a lot of disk IO can harm all services running on the host, for the operator it is safer to OOM kill one process and save all the others :) -- Valentin _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
