On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 02:10:49PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 14:53, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 02:44:26PM +0100, Peter Hessler wrote: > >> Using swap is a bug. Buy more ram. > > ^^^ > > > > I run into bugs all the time... > > > > Memory: Real: 2785M/3694M act/tot Free: 4217M Cache: 550M Swap: 900K/8384M > > 900k? That's only a tiny bug...
I have bigger ones from time to time. I come from a time when it was normal to use swap (SunOS + Xwindows *before* shared objects...), and when it was "just" a normal slowdown. Heck, I remember running a dual-boot OpenBSD/linux box with 32MB of physical memory, where OpenBSD outperformed linux by a huge margin in terms of responsiveness when it started hitting swap. Did we get so complacent with memory that it's no longer the case ?...
