RE: out of swap

David Schwartz
2000-11-28T03:19:34Z

> Last night I was browsing the web and I came across a page with
> LOTS of images. There were so many that it drove my swap space
> to ZERO. I still had 3 Meg of memory, but the system became
> virtually unusable and SLOW. (there were over 150 x 30k+ images
> on one page).
>
> Is this something that the OOM would fix or is this another
> issue altogether?
>
> The machine has
> 64Meg of swap space, 128 Meg of RAM, Dual 233MMX, Itis running
> 2.2.17 and Rh 6.2.
>
> Any ideas? thanks Joe

Add more swap. What would you like the system to do if it's out of both
memory and swap? It can either kill processes or become slow.

DS