Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > The problem is the same as the original post: something bad happens, swap > gets used or over-used, and the machine locks. Without even a warning > message. Linux always behaved that way. BSD-derived OS's running on the > very same commodity Intel hardware dont have that problem. Among my fellow > system admins the rule-of-thumb became "Don't swap". Give it enough RAM to > prevent that or re-distribute application load to prevent it. If you cant > afford that, well.... Why does the linux kernel lock the machine without > messaging when it experiences virtual memory pressure? > > Dan Ritter direct reply to your email addr bounces. > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 9:20 AM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
Something ate it. Weird. d...@randomstring.org is correct. -dsr-