On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 21:32:34 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 
> Swap is horrifically slow. It's better to fail than to use swap for
> stuff...
> 

Is it better to fail when you have already lost several hours in
compilations? Or is it better to use some additional parallel swap on a
bunch of HDDs or SDDs to FINISH emerge during 30 minutes more? I think
the latter is better than fail for no reason. BTW, RAM + swap is better
than swap only.

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