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Lived experience? With swap system stays up but is unresponsive, without it is either responsive due to oom kill or completely down.
by commandersaki 1y ago
Lived experience? With swap system stays up but is unresponsive, without it is either responsive due to oom kill or completely down.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoin either case, what do you do? if you can't reach a box and it's otherwise safe to do so, you just reboot it. so is it just a matter of which situation occurs more often?
- commandersaki 1y agoThe thing is you can survive memory exhaustion if the oom killer can do its job, which it can't many times when there's swap. I guess the topmost response to this thread talks about an earlyoom tool that might alleivate this, but I've never used it, and I don't find swap helpful anyway so there's no need for me to go down this route.