Re: Memory leaks and swap

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:50:39PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > Hi! > > Sometimes I experience system hangs because of memory leaks. A process > with a memory leak eats all memory till the system starts swapping. > Only a few seconds after the process was started the system slows down >

Memory leaks and swap

Hi! Sometimes I experience system hangs because of memory leaks. A process with a memory leak eats all memory till the system starts swapping. Only a few seconds after the process was started the system slows down till it is practically useless. I believe this could be prevented by deactivating sw