[ILUG-BOM] Swap full

[Philip S Tellis]

Sometime on Jul 21, Rajen Parekh assembled some asciibets to say:

> any problems even when there is/was excessive use of swap. So, I am
> not sure if it really matters if swap should be 2x the RAM amount.
> Rather I would think that the lesser the RAM the more the swap. In
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No.  That will cause thrashing.  The system will think it has more
memory than it actually does.  Too many processes will get loaded, and
then they'll start swapping uncontrollably.

Philip

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