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The weird interactions of cgroups and linux page cache in hypervisor environments

The weird interactions of cgroups and linux page cache in hypervisor environments

Here’s one case we’ve spent some time debugging, related to StorPool, VMs, cgroups, OOM (out-of-memory) killer and caching. Some of it should be useful to a lot of sysadmins out there. The issue started with a customer complaining: > It’s happening again, on this hypervisor VMs are being killed > by the OOM killer. This The weird interactions of cgroups and linux page cache in hypervisor environments

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