swap/oom/slow downs

[Orion Poplawski]

On Wed, February 25, 2009 4:47 pm, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 01:58:29 pm King InuYasha wrote:
>> When I switched to Fedora 9, I upped the swap
>> space because of some slowdowns that I experienced because of swap
>> maxing
>> out. And in Fedora 10, it uses this configuration.
>
> That doesn't make sense. If swap is maxed out, something gets OOM killed,
> not
> slowed down.

I see a fairly reproducible issue with acroread run as a mozilla plugin
consuming all memory and killing the machine.  OOM doesn't kill it.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438886

Unfortunately haven't had much time to investigate further.  Basically we
don't run with the pdf plugin enabled anymore.

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