Hello Eric,

Eric Estievenart wrote:
> Indeed htop does not report properly ram usage:
> htop: Mem 1009/2017MB Swp 351/3812MB
> => I thought I could do a swapoff...
> but swapoff was killed by the OOM killer !

It's a kernel memory manager fault I would say.
> 
[snip]
> free:
> Mem:       2065484    2009316      56168          0       7316     969096
> -/+ buffers/cache:    1032904    1032580
                        ^^^^^^^
> Swap:      3903752     359320    3544432
> 
> Cheers

Also please read all messages in this bug thread. You had ~1 GiB of free
memory. The problem half was consumed by buffers.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer

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