On 6/22/2015 3:38 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 6/22/2015 3:13 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: >> What strikes me as odd and wrong is that the OS doesn't seem to protect >> itself from thrashing. The system is perfectly happy to render itself >> inoperative in the service of some lone process sucking up memory. > > Don't like swap thrashing? Shut off swap. There can be no swap trashing > if there is no swap. > > Just don't whine when the OOM killer reaps the applications that you're > using.
That doesn't (necessarily) address the issue I was raising about an out of control app wreaking havoc on the rest of the system. Just a different flavor of havoc. Matt _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss