Ankit, On 5/28/05, Ankit Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a question...what > happens if I dont have swap space and i run out of ram? does the system > hangs/locks or it waits for space to be emptied out?
Just now, minutes before, I was emerging k3d (not k3b) on one tty, top was running on another & i was logged into Gnome 2.10. emerging k3d took my load averages to nearly 19, after which my PC froze (god knows how high it would have went!). It returned back with a crashed X, i386-pc-linux-gnu-g++ reporting an "internal error" (ghosh!). My RAM usage went as high as 99%, with just about 2 megs free, SWAP was being used full 100% (i have almost 200 megs swap). & at this point, i was not even able to switch tty's or login to any one of them. You see, something similar can happen if ur PC runs out of memory (grin) -- regards, makuchaku --- http://makuchaku.tk Linux... Life... Freedom... _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
