Yep, one of my systems got this treatment. It's annoying because OOM has been an issue ever since. I'm playing with EarlyOOM and trying to remember if it'll be a huge pain to resize the partition for more swap space. Thanks for your reply.
Some run their Linux without swap at all, however I think that is better for a server setup where you run a small set of specific set of binaries, thus you know your load.
That is not the case on a desktop where you running a variable set of binaries depending on your task.
I’m somewhat surprised how bad this works on Linux, I don’t think I ever experienced a swap problem on Windows (not even in the 9x days), I guess this is because "Year of the Linux desktop" never happened, Linux is primarily a server and embedded OS, not a desktop OS.