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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!gatech!utkcs2!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Memory problem Date: 16 Oct 92 14:36:40 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 26 Message-ID: <veit.719246200@du9ds3> References: <wmbfmk.719081295@rwb.urc.tue.nl> <1bmcvjINN5m3@corax.udac.uu.se> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Keywords: memory In <1bmcvjINN5m3@corax.udac.uu.se> goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) writes: >In article <wmbfmk.719081295@rwb.urc.tue.nl>, wmbfmk@rwb.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) writes: >|> Hi, I seem to have a memory related problem with 386bsd. >It's a known problem that 386BSD just hangs if you fill the swap. >I call it a bug (I doubt you will find anyone saying it's feature 8-) ). Of course it is a feature! This demonstrates you drastically that you need more RAM and more disk (swap-) space. Several OS vendors and OS writers seem to be heavily "sponsored" by the semiconductor and mass storage industry just to build in this *feature*. I remember times when a Fortran 77 or an AZTEC C ran in 51K TPA area (guess when and which OS...) :-)))) Holger >-- >Goran >Goran Hammarback | goran@astro.uu.se -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"