On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Tld wrote:
> But let me tell you something funny I came accross. :)
> If I have (on a i386 1.6RC1) a mfs /tmp "quite big" (more than phisical 
> RAM, in my case 1024MB), no matter how much swap space I have (in my case, 
> ~1400MB), system will hang as soon as I fill as much space as the free 
> physical RAM. Hard.

This sounds like the problem I described in PR 17128.  As far as I can tell,
there's been no progress in fixing it.

--apb (Alan Barrett)