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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:36:33 -0600
From: Kevin Krieser <kkrieser@delphi.com>
Subject: RE: out of swap
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> What would I like it to do?  Warn me maybe before my swap goes to
> zero.  Kill the
> program that is doing this possibly.  Allow me to set a per
> process memory / swap
> limit so that no one process can suck up my system resources.
>

There are several programs available with the typical Linux installation
that allows you to monitor swap space.  For example, xosview.

There are also settings you can make in Netscape that supposedly limit disk
space usage and memory usage.

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