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Description
This test case tests that systemd-oomd kills the largest swap consumer when swap used is greater 90% (or whatever limit was defined by systemd-oomd-defaults).
Setup
- This test case should be performed on either bare-metal or virtual machines.
- Check that you are running systemd 248~rc1 or higher with
systemctl --version
. - Ensure the systemd-oomd-defaults package is installed (included with Fedora 34).
- Boot the system and log in as a regular user.
How to test
- Check that systemd-oomd is running with
systemctl status systemd-oomd
. - Check that the systemd-oomd-defaults policy was applied by running
oomctl
and verifying that "/" is listed as a path under "Swap Monitored CGroups" along with the current swap usage. - Now run
systemd-run --user tail /dev/zero
.
Expected Results
- systemd-oomd will have killed the unit started above. You can verify by checking for log lines that say something about "swap used <...> is more than 90%" and "systemd-oomd killed <...> process(es)" with
journalctl
. - Swap used should be below 90% (use
free -h
)