[CentOS] OOM and Swappiness

Wed Sep 16 21:21:46 UTC 2015
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>


----- Original Message -----
| 
| On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 13:36 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
| 
| > Excerpt on heavy-duty servers. We're certainly not going to allocate
| > hundreds of gigs, or a terabyte or so, for swap. (Yes, we do have servers
| > with that kind of RAM, and that's not counting the small SGI
| > supercomputer....)
| 
| Do you really run Centos on the SGI ?
| 
| 
| --
| Regards,
| 
| Paul.
| England, EU.      England's place is in the European Union.

I ran CentOS on SGI for years.  Worked pretty well.  Also helped that I worked for SGI prior to that.

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