On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:35 AM, AJ ONeal <[email protected]> wrote: > The bugs I've already been bitten by is that if you have no swap the kernel > will default to sending the oom (out-of-memory) killer on any random process
One thing I have found quite useful is compcache. This allows you to use compressed ram a swap-device. It doesn't need a physical disk and has zero latency so it avoids many of the disadvantages of physical swap devices. It tends to give a 4:1 compression ratio, though I wouldn't recommend a compressed ram swap device much larger than 50% of ram or so. http://code.google.com/p/compcache/ -- John C. McCabe-Dansted /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
