Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> Hmm.
>
> I agree with you; it does sound like the process of eating memory is  
> grabbing all the swap. I can't see how it could be doing that, 
> however. If  you really want to use Pavel's version, I'd suggest 
> adding some more debug  statements. Perhaps print out the number of 
> swap pages free at the start  of that loop.
>
Ok, now funny bit happends. Simple program like that:
while(1){
    char *a=malloc(1024*1024*16);
    if (a==NULL)
       break;
}

can allocate only about 200MB, than exits. That's the fist thing.
Second one, starting KDE, and when swap usage != 0 (just to be sure 
there is no problem with any assumption), gives me loads of error 
messages (see attached file).

Very bizzare behavior.