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SubjectRe: Linux machines dieing in swap storms
> I'm seriously tempted to add a "kill the process using the most memory"
> key combination into SysRq which might let me save the desktop but won't
> help with my remote server. I could also just disable swap I guess.

For specific applications you can set resource limits, you can also set
OOM priorities in current kernels to pick who dies.

Finally you can disable overcommit and go for a rigid "no overcommit"
policy where the system will fail any memory allocation which might lead
to out of memory situations later.

Alan
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