- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Meme format: Undertaker standing behind AJ Styles
AJ styles caption: Stubborn process consuming too much memory.
Undertaker caption: OOM Killer
That sounds to me like it’s basically the same as turning off swap. I don’t think oom killer activates until you fill up your swap as well.
it’s not, because it takes swap usage into account, so you can benefit from swap without risking a frozen system
I guess swap can still be useful for background browser tabs and apps. I haven’t run swap on my machines for years now, so I can’t really remember how and when it decides to start moving stuff there.
The last few times I ran into OOM killer it’s been from compiling/linking some huge project that used up 90% of my ram on its own… so I’ve probably been having a different experience than most people.
yeah, swap is definitely still useful and it gets used by the kernel well before the main memory is full
For what applications? Is it for people who don’t have a lot if RAM? I have not had a swap partition in ages.
For most things. The only exception I see is if you have really over dimensioned memory, or have a very predictable load so that having the extra reclaimable space won’t make a difference.
https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html