[GLLUG] apt died... and I killed it.

[Charles Ulrich]

Sean O'Malley wrote:
> It might not be the issue either, but linux is infamous of keeping stuff
> in memory until it needs to use that memory, so that may explain the
> continuous errors like that or may not. =)

I've noticed that the newer kernels are better about this. Used to be, nothing
ever hit swap until applications started hogging literally all of the physical
RAM. Now, the kernel will start swapping out idle pages sooner in order to
keep more "free" memory available for buffers and cache and also so that
memory-hungry applications have a bit more "breathing room". Or so I assume
those were the kernel developers' intentions. It's still not as aggresive as
FreeBSD is/was about swapping idle pages out to disk, though.

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Charles Ulrich
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