• @[email protected]
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    9111 months ago

    That way you’ll know you’ve run out of physical memory when the cd-rom starts spinning up.

    • @marcos
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      2711 months ago

      Linux doesn’t wait for you to be out of memory to swap-out pages.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          Goes to show I’m not familiar enough with the workings of swap space.

          That’s exactly why we need a CD ROM based solution to explore how swap space works…/s