Respite from the OOM killer

Respite from the OOM killer

Posted Oct 7, 2004 23:29 UTC (Thu) by nobrowser (guest, #21196)
In reply to: Respite from the OOM killer by Luyseyal
Parent article: Respite from the OOM killer

> it would probably be best done in its own subdirectory using
> a number of smaller swap files as adding a new swap is probably
> cheaper than resizing an existing one.

It already exists. Look for swapd in the ibiblio archive.
The response was completely underwhelming when it was young (long ago),
and I don't see why that should have changed.

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