On 2/23/06, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is never true. Swap is *always* called for, and for a good reason.
No, it isn't. For my single-user laptop with 2G of RAM, I actually prefer that the OOM kill any runaway process that is gobbling up RAM. My laptop disk (even at 7200rpm) is too damn slow for swap to be at all useful. The system _will_ be dead until swap is exhausted and the OOM kicks in anyway. The only reason I have a swap partition at all is for suspend2 hibernation. > Your example of having a real-time responsive app requiring memory > residence is a determining factor of how much physical memory you'll > need to keep the app resident. > > But the truth of the matter is this will not be your only app running on > the system. Throw some big memory hogs into play, i.e. an active X > session running locally and that remote X session you've started from > work, and pretty soon you can find yourself eating up that 1gb that you > thought would be fine. No one would ever place a real-time responsive app on a desktop system. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
