On the bionic day of Apr 5, der Mouse mused:

> > But what concerns me is why an OOM condition would kill the system.
> 
> At $DAYJOB, I've just been chasing bugs that manifest as hangs (and
> pretty hard hangs, at that, though probably not as hard as yours) when
> the system is run completely out of swap.
> 
> Could your swap space have been completely filled?

Yes, I certainly suppose so.. it ran for long enough.  Is there some kind
of sysctl or something I can tweak to "reserve" a certain amount of
system/root-only memory, at which if a process tries to allocate into, it
will be killed?

-bp
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