[mythtv-users] Draft revisions to HowTo section 3.3, second try

[Andy Davidoff]

At the risk of contributing to a potentially off-topic thread, I
want to second Bruce's comments and also add that the kernel kills
/random/ processes in an out-of-memory scenario, in addition to
denying malloc()s for more memory.  IIRC, the kernel has been designed
to use swap since somewhere around version 1.1-1.3.  Please use swap.


On Apr 23, at 19:16, Bruce Markey encoded a 2.6K recording:
> The problem with not having a swap partition is that there is no
> place to put memory allocated to inactive processes.  Therefore you
> shrink the amount of memory available for the active processes which
> exasperates your memory shortage.