This is a problem with virtual machines vendors such as Linode where the configured swap space is usually tiny by default... It's much better to provide more sw

This is a problem with virtual machines vendors such as Linode where the configured swap space is usually tiny by default... It's much better to provide more swap (At least as much as RAM size) and see the performances start to deteriorate as a sign of alarm of overcommit, instead of having random processes killed.