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Subject: Re: swap-leak in 2.2.5 ?
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980405172640.00915e30@mail.kersur.net> from Dan Swartzendruber at "Apr 5, 98 05:26:40 pm"
To: dswartz@druber.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 16:35:53 -0500 (EST)
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Dan Swartzendruber said:
> 
> My only quibble with this technique is that it would seem to make it
> harder to tell if your machine is really running low on swap or not
> (e.g. swap as backing store for stack/heap/whatever *is* critical and
> allocation failure can cause application failure, whereas swap being
> used to cache random cruft is in the "who really cares" department).
> Or is there some way to tell the difference?
> 
It is difficult not only to tell if you are low on swap, but also it
is hard to quantify being low on memory.  I have been thinking about
this over the last year or so.

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