> After having firefox killed by the OOM-killer due to a totem running wild > (and watching the killer churn the disks for 5 minutes to do so, what the heck > is it doing?), I ventured to try a hard overcommit limit (which setting > vm.overcommit_memory=2 does, to the best of my knowledge). The system in > question has 640MB RAM, no swap. Running completely without swap is know to be dangerous.. -HK
