Comment 23 for bug 159356
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| rbhkamal (rbhkamal) wrote Re: System freeze on high memory usage | #23 |
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wow, when I started searching the net I didn't expect to find an open bug from 2007.
Same here, I have 16 GB of ram and 32GB in a swap file (not a partition). I have 6 1TB SCSI drives in raid 5 and I get about 250MB/s write through put and double that in read. So I expect my swap file to be fast enough to use a least a few gigs of it. However, 1.5GB into the swap, X stops working. After using 2GB of swap, ssh stops working... and the system never recovers.
Anyway, its seems like no matter how fast is your swap, the system will crash or freeze.... and just for the record, Windows will happily use all of my swap (pagefile) without freezing or killing any processes. So it's not a hardware issue.