swap space exhaustion

[Henry Spencer]

In article <41737 at sgi.sgi.com> jmb at patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton) writes:
>filling up swap won't crash the machine, the OS will instead start gunning
>down processes...

Would it be too much to ask that this be made a configuration option?
Some of us think that it is much better for a machine to crash cleanly
than to try to keep running with crucial processes (Murphy's Law says that
the gunned-down processes will be important daemons) dying randomly and
disrupting operations in bizarre ways.
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