On Sunday 16 January 2011 11:25:06 Grant wrote: > I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes > into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as > chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this > besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS="-j1". > > - Grant
no. And turning off swap is not a good idea. Google for overcommitting and why it is bad to turn swap off.
