Once in a while, you might run into a situation where you need some extra RAM (or swap) for a short time. (I ran into this situation today while stitching some really enormous images in Hugin). Adding a new swap partition isn’t practical if you only need the extra swap space for a short time.Continue reading “Temporary Linux swap in user space”
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An unlikely correlation
I just spotted that my Nagios/RRD graphs of my home server are showing a strange correlation. From these graphs, it seems that the higher the outdoor temperature, the more free memory the system has available. I’m sure this is just a coincidence, though…
Childhood memories
Bank holiday weekend finds me mooching around in my parents’ garden in the evening. This old goal net has seen better days, but I loved playing with it as a kid.
Jonathan Gazeley 