"swap" partition leads to instability?

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Wed May 29 17:49:49 UTC 2013


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:19 AM, jb <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com> wrote:
> - overcommitment of memory (a bluff asking to be punished by OOM killer)

No self respecting Unix has an OOM by default.

> - OOM killer

Are you suggesting FreeBSD does this crap?

> Besides, they allow sloppy/dangerous programming.

Yup, in the kernel.

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Adam Vande More


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