Re: [tlug] Without the swap space.

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 20:31:00 +0200
Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com> wrote:

> > Is this a known problem of Linux? I heard of a word "thrashing" of
> > the time sharing system, but is there any way to keep controls of
> > the box, without pushing the power button?
> Depending on your kernel version it should handle the out of memory
> conditions (OOC) differently as this has been tweaked a lot lately in
s/OOC/OOM/

> the 2.4 series and AFAIK 2.6 even offers some different options for
> this. The debate is on this is what process to kill.
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