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

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