Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: General Question... | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 1998 02:27:08 +0100 (BST) |
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> zero? I know, it's not SUPPOSED to happen, but saying it did, should the > kernel halt and die, or try to kill off processes trying to malloc more > memory, or what?
It should start killing processes as they allocate stuff. That can have bad effects if it happens to pick X11 [yes back to that topic again its another reason for a little kernel side mode switching]
> and 50 megs of swap. My computer locked hard. Couldn't get in through > telnet, either. Is this supposed to happen? Is there a known problem
No that means someone has a bug in the vm code probably too
Alan
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