On: Linux Memory Management FAQ

[ben_bai]

Your problem is the 2GB of swap. Get rid of it and it will just crash without 10min of slowdown (while swap disk is getting written to). </sarcasm>

Linux overcommitting memory and especially chrome/firefox beeing big-fat-memory-hogs are the problem. In fact every application which doesn't cope malloc beeing out of memory or assuming everybody has multiple gigs of memory to spare should "reevaluate".

[ymbeld → ben_bai]

Seriously though that’s a good idea. Might be better to just disable swap. :) Well, at least until I go out and buy more RAM.

[ben_bai → ymbeld]

The soft way would be to set ulimit for memory to something other than unlimited. To cap the max mem limit per process

[ymbeld → ben_bai]

Thanks, that’s a good suggestion.