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...
BTW -- linux sees only 64M without a MEM=96M line...win95 and the
ROM seem to see it all...
marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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