Armen Babikyan wrote:
> >> 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....
> 
> Err, yeah it's probably in the FAQ - I knew versions would crash at the
> time the FAQ was written, but was really wondering if that has changed.
> 
> Since this doesn't seem to be the case, will this "bug" be fixed in NetBSD?

You'd probably have to ask Chuck Cranor about that (he's writing UVM).  In
all reality, there is very little good that you can do at such a
point....how do you decide what to kill?

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
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