Comment 33 for bug 348731

I tried loading the system to force it to use swap by starting two VMs, each with 1800MB of memory, but what happened was that as soon as it started to hit swap (according to atop), X became completely unresponsive except for the mouse cursor - it didn't try to kill anything or kernel panic, it just thrashed the disk continously. After 15 minutes of a frozen X session I gave up and hard reset it.