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

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 9:55 AM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Unless there is just not enough RAM to allow all the pages to be recovered
which as far I can tell is the problem.

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