30 Dec
2012
30 Dec
'12
11:44 p.m.
Anthony Hogan <anthony-luv@hogan.id.au> writes:
Hrrmm.. interesting RE swap. My reading in the past regarding swap seems to be not to starve the machine on it or stuff just dies rather than slows down.. it's something to keep in mind though.
IME as at 2.6, the last time I ran with swap, "slows down" means "slows down to the point where you can't get a shell to spawn pkill" such that you end up having to hard reset the entire machine. Compared to that, letting the OOM killer take a guess (and probably kill off the browser that's causing swap thrash) seems like a good bet. YMMV &c. Oh, for servers I do generally still give them swap, but since they are massively overspecced with RAM, I've never seen them actually page anything out.