Tim: >> 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. Patrick O'Callaghan: > 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"). But it wouldn't be case of your application running or not, it'd be a case of something else dying off, as some additional task was started up at an inopportune moment. A Linux OS isn't just one running process, even if you only run one application on the box. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
