> > I'm running hint...
> >
> > On systems without swap space, they crash (1.2 I recall had very
> > bad behavior when you run out of memory).
> >
> > This is for 2.0.30 and 2.1.43...on both systems, running out of
> > memory seems to cause a crash (a hangup, not a panic).
> >
> > Having a little swap space makes the problem go away (I'm running
> > my main machine now a Pentium Pro with 96Mbyte of ram...I don't
> > see a need for swap, but put in a little so I don't have this
> > bad problem running benchmarks...
>
> Everyone needs swap... Don't think because you got a lot of ram doesn't
> mean you don't need a swap. I'd stick at least a 48 meg swap on that
> thing, if not another 96.
Hmmm, why do you think so? If you have simple server, it may not have
hdd. And since you can not swap over network, you'll have to survive
without swap!
> > BTW -- linux sees only 64M without a MEM=96M line...win95 and the
> > ROM seem to see it all...
>
> Nothing new, you always gotta do this :)
Pavel
---- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).