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There are in fact bad outcomes of continued memory growth - firstly there is a catastrophic performance degradation when processes start getting swapped to disk
by ldarby 11y ago
There are in fact bad outcomes of continued memory growth - firstly there is a catastrophic performance degradation when processes start getting swapped to disk, then when swap space runs out Linux's OOM killer starts killing processes in an attempt to free up memory. Kind of surprised you didn't know this.
- falsedan 11y agobuy more RAM KIND OF SURPRISED YOU DIDN'T BUY MORE RAM
- cheez 11y agoExcept that didn't happen, according to the post.
- ldarby 11y agoThe post says: "Indeed, the processes grew from their initial size of 100MB, slowly, all the way up to 1GB before we killed them." The important part is that they manually killed the processes before they let it start swapping.
- cheez 11y agoAgain, they didn't actually have anything bad happen. Bad: processes couldn't get memory. Not bad: I was using 3 GB of memory.