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Post subject: swap
 Posted: Aug 12, 2007 - 06:50 AM
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Joined: Aug 09, 2007
Posts: 41
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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I found this interesting:
http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/l ... /swap.html
... ie it's a good idea to have some swap even if you have lots of memory ... just in case.
I was running 1 gig of memory with no swap, and it so happened that one day I was running several memory intensive apps, and the last one I started up made the system crawl ... so badly that the seconds on the desktop clock stopped ticking over. I couldn't even get a prompt to kill anything to free up some memory. I had to wait until the system auto-killed one of the apps after a few minutes of not being able to do anything. If I had some swap, I wouldn't have got into that situation. |
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Post subject: RE: swap
Posted: Aug 25, 2007 - 08:31 AM
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Joined: Dec 05, 2006
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Location: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are insects.
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I wonder if in memory management there is (or could be)
an equivalent to the x% of HD space reserved to root.
Comments anyone? |
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