heavy swapping may kill system?

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Sun, June 10, 2007 1:29 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>     No, the worse that should happen is that the kernel will kill the
>     largest offending processes on the system, which is what it did.  At
>     least theoretically.

I've noticed it went though several iterations of swapspace errors and the
IMAP server being killed; it could be that activity, combined with
something else that was going on, was enough to trigger a problem.

I'll keep an eye on it; I haven't been able to get it to repeat again.