The swap handling in 2.4 is somewhat hosed at the moment.
> If I turn swap off all together or turn it off and back on
> periodically to clear the swap before it gets full, I do not seem to
> experience the lockups.
That sounds right. I can give you a tiny patch that should fix the lockups
and instead it will kill processes out of memory but thats obviously not
the actual fix 8)
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