>The system is not supposed to 'lock up' when you run out of physical RAM. If it does, something is wrong. I've never seen a Linux system not lock up on OOM. A

>The system is not supposed to 'lock up' when you run out of physical RAM. If it does, something is wrong. I've never seen a Linux system not lock up on OOM. At work or at home the instant it starts swapping you might as well restart. Of course it has to kill the SSH daemon rather than the process using 98% of the memory. >I have always found Linux to behave far more gracefully than Windows Windows just gets sluggish for a few seconds. You can even still move the cursor when that happens!