Am 20.06.2012 19:18, schrieb Gregory Maxwell:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Reindl Harald
<h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
> i bet now someone is coming up wth "he must not dump a 100 Gb file to
/tmp"
> this is the wrong perspective
> the right one is "the system must not crash if someone does"
Good thing it doesn't
no it does not CRASH
but it starts crawling around because the system starts
to swap and i have never seen any linux system not
get unuseable for my taste while heavily swapping
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what is so difficulty to undersatnd:
a application has the choice:
* holding data in memory
* writing data to a file
if the application thinks the data of the current workload
is too big for memory why would it be a godd design for a
operating system-default to say "does not bother me"?