Julf wrote: 
> Programming language runtime environments do garbage collection, not the
> OS (there is no garbage collection in C, for example), and if your
> system swaps, you don't have enough RAM and have way more serious issues
> than lack of synchronization.

Well I was trying to make a not too nerdy reference to the 'system
tunables' (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt) in
linux like vm.swappiness and vm.dirty*
Second, don't look now but there is a chance your own systems are using
nearly 100% of available RAM (applications + cache), plus a bit of swap.



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