Am 13.12.2007 um 20:19 schrieb Emmet Hikory: > One of the great advantages of having a swap partition is that > everything becomes unbearably slow in a runaway memory situation, > as opposed to the system losing arbitrary processes to the OOM-killer.
The few times I've seen runaway processes, they immediately crashed or stopped misbehaving if they get hit by failing memory allocations. That said, I agree an OS should do it's best (even swap partitions can fill up) to satisfy what a process' demands. With a variable size swap file inside a file system you could do even better and you wouldn't waste several Gigabytes of disk space all the time for these very rare cases. For those guys with Terabyte platters: think about an EeePC: 1 GB RAM, 4 GB disk. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
