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death by swap

death by swap

Posted Nov 4, 2009 18:36 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: death by swap by jabby
Parent article: Toward a smarter OOM killer

If you use suspend-to-disk, you need a large amount of swap-space anyway.


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death by swap

Posted Nov 5, 2009 6:54 UTC (Thu) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048) [Link]

Or using tmpfs for /tmp

death by swap

Posted Nov 5, 2009 11:11 UTC (Thu) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]

Which really should be the default. /var/tmp is for large temporary files.

death by swap

Posted Nov 5, 2009 18:25 UTC (Thu) by khc (subscriber, #45209) [Link]

How does tmpfs for /tmp help suspend to disk?

death by swap

Posted Nov 5, 2009 18:46 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I think his point was that using tmpfs for /tmp needs a large amount of
swap :)

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