On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:39:37 -0400 (EDT),
Benoit MARTEL <magus@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> 
> Which brings up the question: What does NetBSD do when it runs out of 
> memory?
> 
> Does it recover? Does it fail safely? Does it freak unpredictably?
> When several users are using one machine, you definetly dont want one guy 
> with a memory allocation bug in his program to take the whole system 
> down!

It normally does not happen.  Try "man sh" and look for the
description of "ulimit" command for starter.

Ken