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Temporary files: RAM or disk?Temporary files: RAM or disk?Posted Jun 4, 2012 13:09 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Temporary files: RAM or disk? by Cyberax Parent article: Temporary files: RAM or disk?
And while app is swapping in, the system might appear to be locked - I have no idea why, in theory other apps should remain responsive.Possibly part of the X server has been pushed out to swap, leaving it unable to dispatch events without swapping itself back in off the already-highly-contended disk.
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Temporary files: RAM or disk? Posted Jun 5, 2012 14:29 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
And let us not forget that valuable property of the OOM killer who usually makes an entrance at this point: to kill all the desired applications, leaving stupidapp to finally emerge triumphant, only to exclaim, "Where did everybody go?! System is going down for reboot? What does that mean?!"
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