Installing with separate /home partition & bug #150670

Benny Amorsen benny+usenet at amorsen.dk
Thu Feb 26 16:06:50 UTC 2009


Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org> writes:

> That doesn't make sense. If swap is maxed out, something gets OOM killed, not 
> slowed down.

No, the kernel does more aggressive paging of executables and other
read-only pages which can be reloaded from disk. That kills whatever
little performance might be leftover from the swap activity.


/Benny




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