Hi,

  I've just tried to compile a program. It's rather large and I ran out
of memory (serve me right for trying to use FORTRAN!)

  Anyway, my problem is that the behaviour as it runs out of memory isn't 
what I'd expect.

  What actually happens (I'm watching it using top) is that as the amount 
of swap used reaches 100%, instead of complaining that it runs out of 
swap space, I get error messages from as about incorrect assembler 
instructions (They seem corrupted, i.e. ldm r2,sf[we[((  sort of thing)

 If I kill as using top, usually other things ( X, tcsh etc...) die with 
segmentation fault type errors.

  I can only assume that as the swapspace gets full, things that try to 
use it get their memory trashed?

  Just thought someone might be interrested in this.


Ale.