Marek Kozubal  (marek@portents.com) wrote:

>On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Bob Nestor wrote:
>
>> Are you sure you have enough SWAP space?  When the system runs out of 
>> SWAP it starts shedding processes.  It's not to picky about which ones it 
>> picks to kill, so if it happens to pick the "init" process you're left 
>> with a system that you can't log into.  This has happened to me a couple 
>> of times so I know it's possible, and the symptoms you describe are 
>> exactly what I experienced when this happened.
>
>Here's my output from swapctl -l:
>
>Device      512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
>/dev/sd0b       163840        8   163832     0%    0

At the time of the crash/lockup?

SWAP may not be your problem, but from the symptoms you described it 
sounded just like the system lockups I'd seen when SWAP filled.

-bob