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On Thursday, July 21 at 18:43 (-0700), Grant said: |
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> If I understand correctly, an out-of-memory condition that would lock |
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> up a system without swap, will cause it to thrash with swap. A remote |
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> system of mine was locked up for many hours due to running out of |
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> memory without swap. If I had enabled swap, the system would have |
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> thrashed for those hours? |
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It really depends. The rule of thumb is, if your disk is thrashing or |
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you are getting ooms/locks then you need more RAM (or less memory-hungry |
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processes). |
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