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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!eddie.mit.edu!eddie.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: shawn@eddie.mit.edu (Shawn F. Mckay) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: 386Bsd 0.1 / swap space Date: 31 Aug 1993 16:30:09 -0400 Organization: MIT EECS ECF Lines: 17 Message-ID: <260cch$9si@eddie.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: eddie.mit.edu When you install 386bsd it asks if you wish to use the whole disk for it, and when you answer yes it goes off and builds you a file system... When it does this, how much does it hold back for swap? And is there any way to get a summary? (Like with pstat?) Also, when it does run out of swap, does it hang? I'm having a problem like this when my procs get into the 3.5-3.8meg (of 4) usage zone and I ignore it long enough to let it grow to 4+ meg. It hangs. In the old days, Unix would panic, then bsd would kill only the unlucky process.. What does 386bsd do? Thanks, - Shawn