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It's fine until you run out of disk space (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by hypertown@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] jabjoe 4 points 1 year ago

Oh yes. I've had massive compiles (well linking) which failed because of the OOM killer, and I did exactly the same, massive swap so it will just keep going. So what if it's using disk as RAM and unusable for a few hours in the middle of the night, at least it finishes!