I think Ubuntu still do that by default :) Yes, the workaround for swapping to death is allocating no or little swap. I would hope though, that my "algorithm" above would reduce the need for workarounds though, by making sure that all non-hogging processes can have their working set in real memory.
Not sure that 32GB of swap would be appropriate even then though...
Posted Nov 6, 2009 11:40 UTC (Fri) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470)
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>>> I think Ubuntu still do that by default :)
Yes Ubuntu still do that by default...despite many bug reports like mine. Note that my bug report is old, very old (pre-Gutsy time) => https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-auto/+bug/134505
No reaction at all from the Ubuntu devs....very discouraging.