[Beowulf] [OOM killer/scheduler] disabling swap on cluster nodes?

Mark Hahn hahn at mcmaster.ca
Mon Feb 9 22:14:30 PST 2015


> Dec  1 15:01:07 cluster1 kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 7963 
> (sge_qmaster) score 948 or sacrifice child

it's also worth pointing out that you can explicitly
tell the OOM killer to lay off a process (/proc/$pid/oom_*).
sshd does this to itself, for instance - it would make sense 
for a scheduler daemon to do so as well.


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