The out-of-swap killer makes poor choices
Thierry Thomas
thierry at freebsd.org
Wed Feb 24 17:00:08 UTC 2021
Le mer. 24 févr. 21 à 15:26:20 +0100, Bob Bishop <rb at gid.co.uk>
écrivait :
> > For such cases, another solution exists on Linux to dynamically enlarge
> > the swap partition (something like dphys-swapfile or SwapSpace - see
> > <https://github.com/Tookmund/Swapspace> ), but I do not know if such a
> > tool exists on FreeBSD?
>
> You can of course add swap to a running system using swapon(8), but I
> have no idea whether this will improve behaviour if the system is
> already low on resources.
But swapon requires a manual action, this is not dynamically adjusted.
--
Th. Thomas.
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