[Users] Is this mkswap message from OpenVZ?

Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.com
Wed Jan 8 23:06:29 MSK 2020


On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 3:01 PM Paulo Coghi - Coghi IT
<paulocoghi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> By default, OpenVZ doesn't allow swap creation inside containers. And this is a good thing.

I think that depends on the metric used.

A small swapfile would be most useful and economical for us.

I think the lack of a swapfile and OOM kills are the worst choice
because they create a DoS in practice. Users cannot access our wiki
because MySQL was killed.

Jeff


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