On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: > AFAIK overcommitting is unrelated to whether a swap file is available. A 1 MB > swap file helps very little; it just means 1 MB of additional swappable > memory can be committed. My mistake, I must have remembered that incorrectly from previous conversations relating to how swap works. Mea culpa. Regards, Rene