Ask stupid questions and you'll get a stupid answers, was: Technological advantages over Linux

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 09:04:02 -0400
Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 8:43 AM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >         Here is a variant of your experiment that should demonstrate it.
> >
> > 1: Reboot machine, measure performance
> > 2: Memory stress machine to until swapping reduces performance
> > 3: Kill memory stressing process
> > 4: Disable swap - which forces all pages back into RAM
> > 5: Enable swap
> > 6: Loop to 2
> >
> 
> Since stealing memory  from a running process that counts on it to be
> functional will crash the process and odds are that process is something
> low level and critical to keeping X running the above variant is not
> practical to do and thus my current solution has the same effect --
> reboot.

	It is very practical and it is the way I normally recover a system
from a memory usage spike, it works far better than just leaving it alone.
Nothing in that steals memory from running processes.

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