Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:21:07 +0200
lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> To prevent an undesirable state of the system due to insufficient
> memory, you can use (a large amount of) swap space on a slow medium
> because that may give you a chance to do something before processes are
> being killed.
Re-read what Don has explained…
> Always use redundancy (like RAID) also for swap because you don't want
> your system to go down when a disk fails.
From what I know of, the failing of a swap only kills apps that
reside on it; and the 'like RAID' is already included into swaps
(same priority of 2 or more swaps ~ RAID0).
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