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death by swap

death by swap

Posted Nov 7, 2009 3:39 UTC (Sat) by tdwebste (guest, #18154)
In reply to: death by swap by giraffedata
Parent article: Toward a smarter OOM killer

On embedded devices I have constructed processing states with runit to control the running processes. This simple but effective long term scheduling to avoid out memory/swapping, works well when you know in advance what processes will be running on the device.


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