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death by swap

death by swap

Posted Nov 5, 2009 18:25 UTC (Thu) by khc (subscriber, #45209)
In reply to: death by swap by gmaxwell
Parent article: Toward a smarter OOM killer

How does tmpfs for /tmp help suspend to disk?


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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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