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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