a big advantage of 32-bit executables is they die with allocation failure instead of sending a machine into swapping hell change my mind
Sure it would, just because Linux's swap code paths are so bad. Even swap on a MTD backed by DDR DRAM causes the system to grind to a halt if memory pressure gets so high that each access has a significant chance of page fault.
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Haven't had that experience. Doesn't zram, etc. get treated as swap too?
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I think so but I'm not sure. Again the problem is thrashing, which only happens when you've actually allocated and tried to make heavy use of a lot more memory than available physical ram.
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