On Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:05:16 +0100  Manuel BOUYER wrote:

> Well, I just found the reason of the hangs of my sparc: same symptoms,
> same problem ! Perhaps we shoud add a check in /etc/rc and emit a warning if
> no swap space is configured ?

Sure, if the warning isn't too noisy. A message to syslog would do
fine.  There are some configurations for which running without swap is
appropriate.

Giles