On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 01:24:41PM +0000, Zé Loff wrote: > So it's normal for a system to get slowed down to the point of losing > network connections and freezing X every time a process uses swap? I > find that hard to believe...
Not *every time*, but yes, that does happen. Some network drivers are notably flaky when some timeouts occur, I've managed to lose iwn and re due to delays related to excessive swapping.