> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:35:06PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > 	I've just added a swap entry to the NetBSD FAQ:
> > 
> > Nice discussion fo the issue. One comment I'd add, though: since running ou
> t
> > of swap is catastrophic, it's better to over- than underallocate it.
> 
> OK, for more discussion.... what specific conditions would tend to use up
> all of ram and swap, leading to  the catastrophic failure?
> 
> Bob

It happened to me in the past. It was DS3100 with 24MB RAM, 64MB swap, running
Ultrix 4.2a and X. It run out of virtual memory when compiling c++ sources
with STL library and -O3. The compiler was gcc-2.8.1. It run fine without X.

Stan