On 7/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 :) -- Paul Lasek
