huray I am up and running Linux 6.2

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
13 Sep 2000 14:09:51 -0400


Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> writes:

> On 12 Sep 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> > OTOH, I've been known to deactivate all swap if I think something
> > "bad" is going to happen (in particular, a program allocating way
> > too much memory because of some kind of bug or leak), because it
> > takes much longer for interactive performance to recover when a
> > program allocates 64 MB RAM + 200 MB swap before it dies than if
> > it can only allocate 64 MB RAM before it dies.
> 
> Cant you just enable per-process memory limits? 

*shrug* I've been known to do that, too, on occasion, but it
won't keep the machine from swapping, just from swapping as much.
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