[Beowulf] disabling swap on cluster nodes?

Christopher Samuel samuel at unimelb.edu.au
Sun Feb 8 18:56:08 PST 2015


On 07/02/15 14:57, Alan Louis Scheinine wrote:

> Only problem I've seen is that if a user allocates too much memory,
> OOM killer can kill maintenance processes such as a scheduler daemon.

This is why we disable overcommit. :-)

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