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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386Bsd 0.1 / swap space
Message-ID: <OLEG.93Sep1234552@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU>
From: oleg@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU (Oleg Kibirev)
Date: 02 Sep 1993 06:45:52 GMT
References: <260cch$9si@eddie.mit.edu> <260mqt$5mg@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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In-reply-to: osyjm@cs.montana.edu's message of 31 Aug 1993 23:28:29 GMT
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In article <260mqt$5mg@pdq.coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:

   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.

Funny, for me it (NetBSD 0.8) prints an error message. And yup,
this is after removing both hard and soft resource limits.
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							Oleg