I'm not sure of how NetBSD would handle it, but I know that on 
BSDi if you run out of memory you get messages that say "Out of memory." 
and "No more processes." displayed.

Chris


On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Vincent BARAT wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I upgraded my Centris 650 from 16 Mo to 32 Mo last night, and of course
> saw a very big improvement of NetBSD performances under X11 and XEmacs 20.3...
> 
> I tried to overload my mac, just to see how it handles that load, by starting
> several XEmacs and Mosaic one after another, and using xosview to monitor my system state.
> 
> What I don't understand is the following:
> 
> After 1 AfterStep, 2 XEmacs and 2 Mosaic, my real memory was full
> , but swap was not used at all. With 2 more Mosaic and 2 more XEmacs,
> my virtual memory, i.e. my swap (25 Mo according to xosview, and I believe it because
> it is the size of my swap partition :-)) was full.
> 
> At this point, I thought that I would not be able to start another application, but
> I was able to start at least 2 more XEmacs and 1 more Mosaic. So my question is:
> Where does NetBSD take this new memory ?
> 
> Also, another question:
> 
> If I manage to really overload virtual memory, what would be the behavior of NetBSD ?
> 
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