On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Paul Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Thierry Moreau <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Then it's just a matter of the shortest route to finish: route a) secure the 
>> swap, route b) monitor software components for maximum memory usage vs 
>> physical mem plus make a memory exhaustion fault analysis.
>
> Errr, isn't the shortest route c) don't use swap in that system? You are not 
> *forced* to use swap in Linux: I have plenty of Linux instances where it is 
> not turned on.
>
> Noting that it is humorous that people are attributing this to bad OpenSSL, 
> not bad understanding of the places where OpenSSL runs....
>
I'm not sure anyone is blaming negative platform interactions on
OpenSSL (I did not get that impression). It is what it is.

A comment in the source code on occasion warning about the negative
interaction would be nice though. +1 if its properly formatted, too.

Jeff
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