On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Which leads to my question, what really does happen with Linux when you
> use up all the memory, RAM + swap? What is the worst that has happened
> to anyone? EMWTK.
Typically some of your applications will segfault. Linux itself will not
crash under such a situation (well, I never heard of it!) Also, I believe
linux reserves some 'free' ram for use by root so that you can still log
in and kill the offending process even if it is malicious, but I don't
know the details for this.
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