more on unix swap space problem

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <17245 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>
>The kernel has compiled into it the list of devices it *might ever*
>swap on.  Initially, it swaps/pages/allocates_backing_store_from only
>the first; the others are added with the vswapon() system call, made by
>/etc/swapon,[...]

I ran into the insufficient-memory bug, too.

My sysadmin (the fella sitting to my left) says that the swap space is
protected in such a way that an overlarge set of /usr/adm files won't
affect it.  I was attributing the problem to the fact that we've allowed
/usr/adm/acct to hit 17meg.  He says they're unrelated.  I don't buy it.

				--Blair