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Re: more RAM, swap?



On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:24:54PM -0700, Petro wrote:

[Swap]
>     Actually, as cheap as disk is these days, I'd leave it alone for the
>     following reasons: 
> 
>     (1) It's cheap insurance against a runaway process. 

How so? If your process is running away, it'll fill your
swap, be it 16Mb or 1024Gb... You'd actually be better off
with a smaller swap so the process gets killed earlier on...
or am I missing something?

/Y



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