various boot-related questions.

[George Drettakis]

In article <41737 at sgi.sgi.com> jmb at patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton) writes:
>filling up swap won't crash the machine, the OS will instead start gunning
>down processes.  This would seem to answer most of your concerns.
>
This maybe true. However a I have probably witnessed more swap space filling
than any other person around (we did it 2-3 times a day at one point),  and
what happens is that the machine goes into a very confused state, and yet again,
the belly button is the only solution (NOTHING responds, no rlogins, 
not the console). This resulted in us writing a checkpointing mechanism so we
could save the most recent data before the crash.
>
>-- Jim Barton
>Silicon Graphics Computer Systems    "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!"
>jmb at sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb at decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmb
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