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RE: why swap is important?



On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 19:53 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 17:04 -0800, Gilbert, Joseph wrote:
> > If Debian runs out of memory space, it will arbitrarily start killing
> > processes to clear up memory.  This has unpredictable and possibly
> > catastrophic consequences.
> 
> *Debian* does no such thing.  *Linux* does it.
> 
> That's a big, fat important distinction.

And, it is extreme geekish fun to watch ;D



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