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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:43:37 -0500
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
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hpa@zytor.com said:
> This is not necessarily a bad thing, however.  If the user hadn't set
> up  enough swap, they're probably better off getting the error message
> early. 

This is not a situation in which a lack of swap or a lack of RAM is a problem.

The problem is a tmpfs filling up.

You think that UML refusing to run if it can't get every bit of memory it
might ever need is preferable to UML running fine in somewhat less memory?

				Jeff

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