In my experience, a misbehaving linux system that's out of RAM and has swap to spare will be unusably slow. The process of switching to a tty, logging in, and killing whatever the offending process is can easily take a good 15 minutes. Xorg will just freeze. Oh, and hopefully you know what process it is, else good luck running `top`.
Until this is fixed, I'll just keep running my systems with very small amounts of swap (say, 512MB in a system with 16GB of RAM). I'd rather the OOM killer kick in than have to REISUB or hold down the power button.
Some benchmarks with regards to the performance claims would be nice.
Until this is fixed, I'll just keep running my systems with very small amounts of swap (say, 512MB in a system with 16GB of RAM). I'd rather the OOM killer kick in than have to REISUB or hold down the power button.
Some benchmarks with regards to the performance claims would be nice.