Memory leaks and swap

Hi!

Sometimes I experience system hangs because of memory leaks. A process with a memory leak eats all memory till the system starts swapping. Only a few seconds after the process was started the system slows down till it is practically useless. I believe this could be prevented by deactivating swap so that the OOM killer would catch this process. But is there a better way to solve such issues?

Christopher

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