On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 20:55 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:06 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > maybe based on the idea that swapping will cause the system to > > behave badly > > It seems strange to think that a system will swap just because there's > swap space available. Surely, it's only going to swap when it needs to, > and you'd be faced with operating and swapping, or being unable to swap > and unable to operate once you reach that stage. True, but in some systems -- especially those with realtime requirements -- it can actually be preferable to fail than to go slow (due to what we oldtimers call "thrashing"). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
