Re: curious crashes when under memory pressure

Intel and AMD cores are now heterogeneous compute engines. The idea that it
is useful to beat the crap of every core simultaneously for an extended
period of time is a really dumb idea for capacity testing now.

On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM Peter 'PMc' Much
> <pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> wrote:
> >> I'm swapping to a zfs mirror
> >
> > Well, You shouldn't do that.
>
> Why not? Swapping to a *file* on zfs has obvious issues, but swapping
> to a mirrored swap partition seems like it should be entirely safe. A
> bit slow (double writes) but I spent $ on RAM rather than M.2 drives
> on the theory that I can add those later as needed.
>
> Chris
>
>