[Discuss] memory management

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

On 6/22/2015 3:38 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 6/22/2015 3:13 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> What strikes me as odd and wrong is that the OS doesn't seem to protect
>> itself from thrashing.  The system is perfectly happy to render itself
>> inoperative in the service of some lone process sucking up memory.
> 
> Don't like swap thrashing? Shut off swap. There can be no swap trashing
> if there is no swap.
> 
> Just don't whine when the OOM killer reaps the applications that you're
> using.

That doesn't (necessarily) address the issue I was raising about an out
of control app wreaking havoc on the rest of the system.  Just a
different flavor of havoc.

Matt