On Thursday, July 21 at 18:43 (-0700), Grant said:
> If I understand correctly, an out-of-memory condition that would lock > up a system without swap, will cause it to thrash with swap. A remote > system of mine was locked up for many hours due to running out of > memory without swap. If I had enabled swap, the system would have > thrashed for those hours? It really depends. The rule of thumb is, if your disk is thrashing or you are getting ooms/locks then you need more RAM (or less memory-hungry processes).
