Comment 556 for bug 620074

And can we find a solution that would apply in the case where the system is running out of free RAM and starts swapping out everything? I often experienced total unresponsiveness of both X and the consoles when a program tries to use more RAM than is available, and I wasn't even even able to kill the process manually (forced reboot). Maybe that should be considered as a pathological case requiring just the OOM killer to be more aggressive - I don't know.