On Friday 22 July 2011 19:13:35 Grant wrote: > Wouldn't a sufficiently large swap (100GB for example) completely prevent > out of memory conditions and the oom-killer?
Of course, on any system with more than a few dozen MB of RAM, but I can't imagine any combination of running programs whose size could add up to even a tenth of that, with or without library sharing (somebody will be along with an example in a moment). For instance I'm running four instances of BOINC projects here, one on each core, with oodles of space to spare and no swapping. Mind you, I do have 16GB RAM :-) Having said that I ought to go and shrink my swap partitions, but my disks are only half-allocated already, so I don't see the point. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter number 5290
