[CS-FSLUG] Trivial questions

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 21:44, john-thomas richards wrote:
> i agree that swapping to disk is not good server practice, but what
> happens when a mission-critical has a memory leak that leaks rapidly and
> uses up all the physical ram?  with a disk swap performance would
> clearly suffer, but the machine would continue to *run*.  most linux
> servers are x86 and therefore limited in the physical ram they can have
> so adding far too much ram is often not feasible.

:-) If you are in that situation, you've got problems going way back
including finding out how that program got into a "mission-critical"
spot.

JSR/