[systemd-devel] Swap gets activated twice (through fstab and gpt generators)

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Tue Jan 27 21:25:32 PST 2015


On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> You also need swap if you want to use all of your memory. If you have
> no swap, allocating close to 100% RAM becomes very dangerous, because
> any overflow will result in oom.

Yes that makes sense too. Maybe zram will work out such that it
effectively slows things to a craw until pressure instead of
implosion, and swap on disk can mostly be obviated for the ordinary
cases.

-- 
Chris Murphy


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