On Jun 24, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Benjamin Kirk wrote: >> > FWIW, I have no swap on my compute nodes. (No disk for that matter > too.) > I'd rather have a memory allocation request that does not fit in RAM > kill > the process than swap!!
I completely agree with this. I've even gone to having no (or very little) swap on my desktop for the same reason. If I'm ever swapping I've done some horribly wrong... and it just needs to be killed. With more than 2 or 4 gigs of RAM there should never be a _good_ reason to swap. Derek ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
