This is an older machine running a Debian-based distro with lxde and pcmanfm used as file manager. pcmanfm normally runs quite well, except when it comes to copying very large files (e. g. *.VOBs from an uncompressed DVD). Well, actually I thought it would use my swap (set at 3.5 GB) but unfortunately swap would always show about 12 MB.So is pcmanfm ignoring the swap file? Unfortunately, one of this machine's RAM modules showed errors and I had to remove it. So I'm currently down to only 1 GB of physical RAM :(. Still, this should not matter if swap was correctly addressed!Example from syslog:[40398.719466] Out of memory: Kill process 21573 (compiz) score 2 or sacrifice childInstead, processes that require most resources get killed by the kernel, coincidentally depending what it gets hold of next (usually compiz, dbus etc.)Is there a way to tell pcmanfm to use the swap space anyway?
Out of Memory error while copying large files with pcmanfm
file copy;lxde;out of memory;pcmanfm