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.