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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386Bsd 0.1 / swap space
Date: 31 Aug 1993 23:28:29 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717
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In article <260cch$9si@eddie.mit.edu>,
Shawn F. Mckay <shawn@eddie.mit.edu> wrote:
>When it does this, how much does it hold back for swap?

5 MB's.  nowhere near enough.
>And is there any way to get a summary? (Like with pstat?)
Find swapinfo.

>
>Also, when it does run out of swap, does it hang? I'm

Yes, it just hangs.
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