On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:21:07 +0200 lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > To prevent an undesirable state of the system due to insufficient > memory, you can use (a large amount of) swap space on a slow medium > because that may give you a chance to do something before processes are > being killed.
Re-read what Don has explained… > Always use redundancy (like RAID) also for swap because you don't want > your system to go down when a disk fails. From what I know of, the failing of a swap only kills apps that reside on it; and the 'like RAID' is already included into swaps (same priority of 2 or more swaps ~ RAID0). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140909233352.3ddad23c@msi.defcon1