Quoting Oren Shomron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm having some trouble with Linux. Whenever some application starts
> taking up way too much memory (netscape with its leaks) and I run out,
> my system starts hard-drive thrashing like crazy and becomes totally
> unresponsive.
> I can't do anything but ALT+SYSREQ my way to a reboot.
> Is there any way to make linux handle this better? Any Kernel patches
> perhaps?
>
Would you by any chance be willing to tell us what is your kernel version, the
amount of physical memory you have, your swap partitions you use, and whether
you checked the swap space for bad blocks, and some more information that
might be relevant?
Thanks,
Liran.
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