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On 2/23/06, Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@××××.com> wrote: |
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> This is never true. Swap is *always* called for, and for a good reason. |
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No, it isn't. For my single-user laptop with 2G of RAM, I actually |
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prefer that the OOM kill any runaway process that is gobbling up RAM. |
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My laptop disk (even at 7200rpm) is too damn slow for swap to be at |
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all useful. The system _will_ be dead until swap is exhausted and the |
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OOM kicks in anyway. The only reason I have a swap partition at all |
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is for suspend2 hibernation. |
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> Your example of having a real-time responsive app requiring memory |
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> residence is a determining factor of how much physical memory you'll |
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> need to keep the app resident. |
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> But the truth of the matter is this will not be your only app running on |
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> the system. Throw some big memory hogs into play, i.e. an active X |
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> session running locally and that remote X session you've started from |
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> work, and pretty soon you can find yourself eating up that 1gb that you |
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> thought would be fine. |
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No one would ever place a real-time responsive app on a desktop system. |
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-Richard |
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