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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Subject: Re: kern/18394: When /swap if full ? 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/18394; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
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Subject: Re: kern/18394: When /swap if full ? 
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 09:12:31 +0200

 On Mon, 08 May 2000 10:09:26 +1000, Gregory Bond wrote:
 
 > >  	$yes 'yes'
 > 
 > Hmm, if it were 
 > 	$yes `yes` 
 > (nb: back-tic not apostrophe) then this would run out of swap space...
 > eventually.
 
 In which case, a simple
 
 	`yes`
 
 would suffice.  Note that it's the shell that exhausts memory, not the
 yes process.  So now the the originator needs to tell us whether this is
 still a problem when he uses login.conf(5) resource limits properly.
 
 I still think this is bogus. :-)
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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