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To recap: swap makes anon memory pages reclaimable, by offloading it to disk. This does not explain anything. Its basically "swap allows anon maps to be swapped"; so what?
>> You need to opportunistically handle the situation yourself before ever thinking about the OOM killer.
Or, just rely on OOM killer, minimal swap(so the application dont agony in low memory conditions) and restart policies. There are no reason to do the kernel work handling memory over-commit.
More in the firnance think we're headed for inflation. as soon as money leave equities/deriv markets.
we're not 100% on-prem, but aws, gcloud and azure are the worst examples of 3rd party hosting - unpredictable and with complicated billing. we're considering the alternatives to big 3 for the "cloud hosting"
its a poor article boasting a flashy headline.
this may cast a shadow on ARM64 servers credibility.
they used to design their first generation of arm servers in-house. it looked like a blade server with slottable cpu(or was it the whole system on a micro-board?). check the video from 2014(at the end) for some glimple on a physical machine https://blog.scaleway.com/2014/online-labs-public-preview/?f...
check your conclusions - 90% of articles with rocking iphone performance cite geekbench.
Its the first time i hear such claim.