Re: An old box running Debian 8
Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> The problem is the same as the original post: something bad happens, swap
> gets used or over-used, and the machine locks. Without even a warning
> message. Linux always behaved that way. BSD-derived OS's running on the
> very same commodity Intel hardware dont have that problem. Among my fellow
> system admins the rule-of-thumb became "Don't swap". Give it enough RAM to
> prevent that or re-distribute application load to prevent it. If you cant
> afford that, well.... Why does the linux kernel lock the machine without
> messaging when it experiences virtual memory pressure?
>
> Dan Ritter direct reply to your email addr bounces.
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 9:20 AM Dan Ritter <Dan@randomstring.org> wrote:
Something ate it. Weird. dsr@randomstring.org is correct.
-dsr-
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