minus-squaretwack@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Stop Doing Swap PartitionslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·14 days agoIf you run out of RAM and have swap disabled, then some program must be killed to make room. That’s handled by OOM (out of memory). Whatever got killed might have been important, and you as the user don’t get to pick at that point. linkfedilink
If you run out of RAM and have swap disabled, then some program must be killed to make room. That’s handled by OOM (out of memory).
Whatever got killed might have been important, and you as the user don’t get to pick at that point.