On 03/28/2012 12:22 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:
Michael Schroeder (mls@suse.de) wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:40:19AM -0300, Claudio Freire wrote:
Remember a thrashing system is usually only recoverable with a hard reset.
Are you still using swap? With the current ram prices, I don't bother to add any swap anymore. How much swap is used in your system (try 'free -m')? I prefer to just add a bit more mem and don't have a trashing system anymore. (Instead of trashing the OOM killer will just kill some process, hopefully the right one ;) )
Agreed - OOM killer is in many cases far preferable to endless thrashing. OTOH, here is a very old (2004) article that argues there are still good reasons for swap:
http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/linux-kernel/swap.html
I'd be interested to hear opinions on how much of it is still relevant.
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