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If you, however, want to get back to work as quickly as possible if one of your calculations erroneously uses too much memory, having swap will prolong the sys
by claudius 9y ago
If you, however, want to get back to work as quickly as possible if one of your calculations erroneously uses too much memory, having swap will prolong the system-is-frozen period before the OOM killer solves the problem.
- empthought 9y ago> the OOM killer "solves" the problem. I fixed this for you. At least there are still some OSes that don't consider this a "solution."