Re: Swap signature eaten by 2.1.105

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:29:44 +0100 (BST)


On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tim Waugh wrote:
> >
> > >After netscape had used up about all of my swap space, my Pentium with
> > >32Mb went silent. The disks would make noises for under a second, about
> > >every 20 seconds or so.
>
> > >That worries me.
> >
> > Me too ;-).
>
> Well, besides this AOL block, there's some actual code
> on my homepage. This code chooses which process to kill.
> Unfortunately, I haven't yet come up with a criteria for
> when to start killing processes...

I'm not so much worried that I ran out of memory, but I _AM_ worried about
my swap partition losing its signature. That just shouldn't happen.

Tim.
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