burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess) wrote:

>I found that no matter how much swap I specified, when the amount of
>swap in use was 200% of my available memory, my system would freeze.  I
>doubled the amount of real memory and the hangs went away.

Well, one of my machines was using a lot more then 200% of available memory
recently with no problems.  (About 500%, and paging heavily.)
I don't think 200% is a magic number.
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