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On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:21:41 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Robert Krawitz <rlk-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A at public.gmane.org> writes: > >> The question is whether in practice I'd come anywhere near the write >> limit in any reasonable amount of time. Or whether I'd care even if I >> did. > > You definitely would care if it did! Well, I'd get a write failure to swap, which would probably lead to something between a process receiving a SIGKILL and the laptop taking a panic. If this were to happen after 2 years of hard use (at which point I'd be memory constrained until I either added a new device or used a free partition on my rotating disk, assuming I haven't replaced the laptop by then), it would be well in the noise level. This is not a 24x7 HA server. This would be at least one order of magnitude down from other glitches that sometimes cause a hard crash on my laptop. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A at public.gmane.org> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
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