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On Mon, 28 May 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> stupid question, but shouldn't there be a mechanism to prevent that?
> something to crash the process or somethign when the machine runs out of
> virtual memory?

  It has always been my experience that it does.  Basically the process
that requests memory that doesn't exist, is killed.


Tom


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