<div dir="ltr">Hi Hendrik,<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">My experience when I end up swapping to a hard drive is that the whole<br>
system becomes so slow and unresponsive that it mosstsly ignores console<br>
input, and I have no ability to kill things before the OOM does. Often<br>
the best way to get things moving again is a hard reset. And then<br>
watching it repair the filesystems.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>well, in Linux 4.10 there is kind of a solution - writeback throttling allowing "skipping parts of the queue" as described in <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/682582/">https://lwn.net/Articles/682582/</a> .</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Jan</div></div></div></div></div>