On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:25:17AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> I started to read Charles Cranors thesis about the UVM virtual memory system
> now integrated in NetBSD (after the 1.3 release), and he states that UVM, 
> unlike the old Mach VM used earlier, detects running out of swap and sends 
> an error signal to a process if it tries to access a page for which anonymous
> backing store would be needed, but isn't (currently) available. (SIGSEGV, I
> guess).

This still won't help if the unlucky process happens to be inetd or named
or something essential.. but the other solutions (allowing only root
processes to allocate swap after a certain point) would help.

  -jm