On Friday 25 January 2008 04:42:49 pm John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
[snip]
Another thing you might want to do is not have a swap
partition. Apps run fine without swap, you just might run into OOM more
frequently.
I remember reading an article in Linux Journal about 1.5 years ago or so about
a technique for use with embedded and other smaller memory Linux systems so
that you can fix a memory ceiling and, thus, prevent OOM killer from ever
triggering. I don't have my back issues handy (I recently moved), but I
think this is it:
[
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8502 ]
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