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wang_liyesterday at 11:59 PM1 replyview on HN

100% of OSes are better than Linux in this regard as long as overcommit is the default.


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hunterpaynetoday at 4:39 AM

I always turn off swap and that solves this problem. I really don't understand why it is on by default anymore. If you need swap, you are doing something very wrong somewhere else.