Anthony Hogan <[email protected]> writes: > Hrrmm.. interesting RE swap. My reading in the past regarding swap > seems to be not to starve the machine on it or stuff just dies rather > than slows down.. it's something to keep in mind though.
IME as at 2.6, the last time I ran with swap, "slows down" means "slows down to the point where you can't get a shell to spawn pkill" such that you end up having to hard reset the entire machine. Compared to that, letting the OOM killer take a guess (and probably kill off the browser that's causing swap thrash) seems like a good bet. YMMV &c. Oh, for servers I do generally still give them swap, but since they are massively overspecced with RAM, I've never seen them actually page anything out. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
