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Old 9th May 2008
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More noise than signal
 
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If you don't have swap space defined ... and you run out of RAM, the OS will do one of two things:
  1. Panic
  2. Hang
It could be doing either; a panic will drop to the ddb(8) debugger by default, but ... when you have X running, you would not see it.
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