I increased swap to 1 gb. I reinstalled Hurd, since I broke it real good.
Did you activate the swap partition in Debian GNU/Hurd? swapon /dev/hdXXX should do the trick, and then you can use vmstat to see how much you have free. I begin searching archives. Subscribe to debian-users list, probably a better place to submit my silly questions than here ;-) Anything about Debian GNU/Hurd is better to post to debian-hurd really... and then I try and pine my way to a confirmation letter from the debian users list, and since pine no bash I 'apt-get install pine' and the package was not available. Pine is non-free software; which is why it isn't avaiable. Mutt is a nice client if you don't wish to use Rmail/VM/Gnus in Emacs.
