On 10/09/2014, Martin Read <zen75...@zen.co.uk> wrote: > On 09/09/14 19:42, Bzzzz wrote: >> Normally, if you _really_ reach the system RAM limit, init begins >> killing the least used programs/daemons (well, this WAS true with >> a good init, such as the sysV one…) > > First, the OOM Killer is part of the kernel, not part of the init > system. Second, it doesn't start killing processes until you run out of > RAM *and swap*. > >
Yeah, but, whatever I tried, I could never get Debian 6 to swap. It would just run out of RAM and freeze. With Debian 5, I could trick it into swapping, by opening gimp, anf manipulating a file, and then closing gimp, and that would trick swapping into working, but, not even that, works with Debian 6. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacx6j8pycaj0ce5fmhlwnref-gmkmz0bu6jcsrpy+p8dgkm...@mail.gmail.com
