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Ankit Malik wrote:
I have read an article which said something similar, but nothing much
changed. I tried decreasing swappiness to 10, but experienced little
changes.
hmmm...Maku can you elaborate how you got the job done??? I could do
Ankit Malik wrote:
Another *drastic* soln. might be removing swap??? I have a question...what
happens if I dont have swap space and i run out of ram? does the system
hangs/locks or it waits for space to be emptied out?
I think if you run out of memory, a process called OOM-killer will get
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
Ankit Malik wrote:
Another drastic soln. might be removing swap??? I have a question...what
happens if I dont have swap space and i run out of ram? does the system
hangs/locks or it waits for space to be emptied out?
Not having swap isn't a good idea IMO.
You
On 5/30/05, Raj Shekhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think if you run out of memory, a process called OOM-killer will get
started and killoff the process that is taking up the most amount of
memory.
Exactly!
Something similar seemd to have happened when emerge stopped X crashed.
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Raj Shekhar wrote:
Not having swap isn't a good idea IMO.
You should have swap for idle programs to be stored there.
Not necessarily true. If you want to have all your processes to stay in
memory, for example when you are running a
I have installed PXES 1.0 on FC3. Nodes have NIC 8139b. Nodes are
booting successfully with image (.zdsk) copied on floppies.
Now I wish to generate rom image from rom-o-matix.com for this card
(Vendor ID- 10EC,PCI ID- 8139) so that I can burn on EEPROM. But I am
not able to figure out which image
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
If OOM killer kills off random processes, I'd say it to be the most shitty
piece of code.
The idea behind OOM killer is that it is better of killing on or two of
your processes (based on certain parameters) than having the whole
server crash because the kernel
