out of swap space

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Jim Pazarena <fquest at paz.bz> wrote:

> There is a lot of historical chatter about the amount of swap space
> required.
> But for my question, I haven't seen discussion:
> What HAPPENS when the system flags "out of swap space".
> Does a process die? or does the system merely become very sluggish?
>

Both, a process is killed and whenever you're starting to use swap space
you should expect the system to become sluggish.


> I have dozens of "out of swap space" messages, but I cannot find any dead
> and/or failed jobs.
>

/var/log/messages should be listing exactly what was killed and when.  It's
probably on the console too.



-- 
Adam