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Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 14:01:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: What swap for 1Gb memory? 
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On Sat, 10 May 1997, The Devil Himself wrote:

...
> RAM, because if the kernel panics, it dumps a complete image of memory
> into the swap space, to be recovered on reboot for examination, and it can
> do bad thigs if there's not enough swap.
> How bad, I don't know, but I don't think I'd want to find out...

  It would continue to write beyond the end of swap, possibly wiping out
file systems located after the swap space!  I believe this bug was fixed
long, long ago in almost every BSD system.

> > --
> > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
> > =====================================================================
> > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
> > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
> 
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Tom