[PLUG] Ideal Swap partition size

[श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर]

On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 13:42:25 Devendra Laulkar wrote:
> Problem with no swap is that, when you do run out of RAM on a rainy day,
> your computer just locks up for some time and an application gets killed
> of to make space. Having swap space makes the computer slow down, but it
> gives some time to investigate.

Better turn off overcommit instead of adding swap. That will fail the programs 
right away and make it more predictable.

Shridhar