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Re:Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4... by mrmondo on Sunday January 29, 2017 @04:59AM (#13513407)
heh, try using Windows when it goes into swap, Windows both desktop and server additions have the worst memory management I've ever seen and having no ZRAM and a pig of a filesystem like NTFS really doesn't help either.

Going into swap in Linux isn't a problem, it's a symtom of a misconfigured / provisioned server or an unhanled application memory leak, other than that the other only things that should cause it is incorrectly configured use of shared / reserved memory.

Disk based swap should pretty much always be disabled these days and ZRAM used to incresed efficiency.

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Re:Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4... by arthurfm on Sunday January 29, 2017 @07:19AM (#13513801)
> having no ZRAM

Windows 10 has had memory compression [1] for quite a while now. On the PC I am on at the moment with 100+ Chrome tabs open, I have 1.3GB compressed out of a total of 16GB.

[1] http://www.thewindowsclub.com/memory-compression-in-windows-...

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Re:Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4... by lima on Sunday January 29, 2017 @08:44AM (#13514085)
Works very well on Windows Server 2012 and saves massive amounts of money with some workloads.
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Re:Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4... by Amezarak on Sunday January 29, 2017 @09:23AM (#13514224)
Incidentally, at least on Windows, you can save a ton of harddrive space by changing your swap settings - the default is crazy high, especially if you have lots of RAM.
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