Armen Babikyan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> What happens when NetBSD/mac68k runs out of RAM and swap? does it kill
> processes or crash or what?  I just got my NetBSD machine to a point where
> it had 380k mem (swap and ram) left, and i didn't really want to find out
> what happened.  I've heard that Linux kills processes asking for the extra
> memory, or something (with a "virtual memorty exhausted" error).
> 
> thanks, and sorry for the randomness of subject matter

Isn't this in the FAQ?  If not, I know thru experience that lack of VM
under old VM will simply hang the machine.  UVM may do the same, or it may
be slightly more graceful about it....

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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