Which distro are you testing on? Any Debian based (past 4 yrs at least), Arch, Fedora-- OOM does NOT kick in. Try it on a bootable USB instance as I suggested. No swap there at all.
Changing min_free just makes the freeze occur earlier. (also depends on which DE. Gnome/Unity is the worst offender.. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159356 Title: When DMA is disabled system freeze on high memory usage To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
