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Subject: Re: out of swap space
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Reed A. Cartwright <cartwright@asu.edu>
wrote:

> We've run out of swap on a system with 512GB of memory and 1TB of swap
> space.
>
> Processes get killed, including services.  It is usually easiest to
> reboot to start from a fresh system.
>
> The funny effect is that you can log in to SSH and get a shell, but
> cannot run any binary that is not already cached in memory.  That
> confused the hell out of me until I checked memory and swap usage.


You can use protect(1) to ensure the wrong things don't get killed.



-- 
Adam