> Back in the good old days, you would actually run out of memory. It kept you on your toes unlike today when allocs rarely if never fail. Instead, everything j

> Back in the good old days, you would actually run out of memory. It kept you on your toes unlike today when allocs rarely if never fail. Instead, everything just collectively gets paged out to disk, then sluggish and sloshed, and eventually inoperable. And at that point you really can't pinpoint it down to some stupid web page because everything is equally paged out by the time. There's always swapoff(8) if you want that behavior back...might want to tweak your /proc/$PID/oom_adj (assuming Linux) to make sure the OOM-killer axes the "right" process, though.