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A swapping system is degraded, not "not working".
> But in any case shouldn't OOM killer come to the rescue?
The OOM killer will heuristically kill random crap. It could be the process with an unbounded memory growth, or it could be your text editor.
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A swapping system is degraded, not "not working".
> But in any case shouldn't OOM killer come to the rescue?
The OOM killer will heuristically kill random crap. It could be the process with an unbounded memory growth, or it could be your text editor.