Am 20.06.2012 19:18, schrieb Gregory Maxwell: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> i bet now someone is coming up wth "he must not dump a 100 Gb file to /tmp" >> this is the wrong perspective >> the right one is "the system must not crash if someone does" > > Good thing it doesn't no it does not CRASH but it starts crawling around because the system starts to swap and i have never seen any linux system not get unuseable for my taste while heavily swapping _____________________________________ what is so difficulty to undersatnd: a application has the choice: * holding data in memory * writing data to a file if the application thinks the data of the current workload is too big for memory why would it be a godd design for a operating system-default to say "does not bother me"?
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