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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> It shouldn't panic when it runs out of swap, it should just kill the
> runaway process(es).


I thought it killed the next process to allocate memory --- which is
somewhat random.  What happens if the kernel  is the next entity to allocate
memory?