[CentOS] oom-killer.

[William Warren]

part of returning from swap would be helped by reducing the kernel's 
tendency to swap..:)

Andreas Rogge wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2005, 12:13 +0100 schrieb J.J.Garcia:
> 
>>Finally inspected the syslog and realize the oom-killer was called to leave the
>>system stable having killed firefox-bin, 3 x rosetta, xmms and one nautilus.
>>
> 
> 
> Hello J.J.,
> 
> I think it was firefox who ate all your memory and the situation
> returned to normal when it got killed.
> I'm sometimes running into problems with firefox. It eats the whole
> memory (1.5 GB) and when I unlock the screen in the morning I have to
> wait almost a minute for my desktop returning from swap. Even
> xscreensaver gets swapped so I have to wait for the password prompt.
> 
> AFAIK this is a known issue and it is being worked on by the Firefox
> developers.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
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