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Re: [tlug] A Swap Question



Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
So why not just get rid of swap entirely?

My answer to this is quite simple. It gives you an air break before you hit the wall. If you allocate no swap, your system will, without warning, run out of memory and start randomly killing processes. This might mean for example that X gets killed because an X application has a serious memory leak. If you add some swap, your system will grind to an almost halt giving you enough time to login from the console run ps to get the process id and kill the rogue process.


Edward


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