Re: killed: out of swap

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

bqt%softjar.se@localhost (Johnny Billquist) writes:

>I don't see any realistic way of doing anything with that.
>It's basically the first process that tries to allocate another page 
>when there are no more. There are no other processes at that moment in 
>time that have the problem, so why should any of them be considered?

They might be the reason for the memory shortage. You can prefer large
processes as victims or protect system services to keep the system
managable.