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From: Jim Pazarena <fquest@paz.bz>
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Subject: out of swap space
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There is a lot of historical chatter about the amount of swap space 
required.
But for my question, I haven't seen discussion:
What HAPPENS when the system flags "out of swap space".
Does a process die? or does the system merely become very sluggish?
I have dozens of "out of swap space" messages, but I cannot find any 
dead and/or failed jobs.
Thx