>no swap might have been a fix The chances of that are astronomically low. From the article: >I later found out that all of our older machines had swap enable

>no swap might have been a fix The chances of that are astronomically low. From the article: >I later found out that all of our older machines had swap enabled. It was just the ones which had been replaced or reinstalled which had been popping up without it, perhaps as part of a policy change. That means it was perfectly valid for us to run with swap on, since most of the machines we owned were using it.