Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry)

["Paweł Lasek" <pawel.lasek@gmail.com>]

On 7/13/06, quanstro@quanstro.net <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> i typically run with 128MB real memory and 750MB of swap *used*
> (out of 4G).  the oom killer hasn't been up on murder charges on my
> machine yet.

The only time I had seen OOM-killer running was when I invoked it
directly by SysRq combo. I had once reached full memory and swap, but
even then OOM-killer didn't run - I am not sure if 2.6.x line didn't
changed the default behaviour, as the only think that happened was gcc
complaining "Out of Memory" during compilation of Open Office (never
more - I have given up and used binaries and OTOH, for my own works I
mostly use TeX) and killing itself.

And swap had given me enough to not remove it - and on linux,
strangely, even on systems with godlike amounts of memory, small swap
was found to be a good choice (Something about caching/mapping and so
on).

And as for Plan9... when you have at most 40 MB, swap is a good idea :)

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Paul Lasek