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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 08:37:29 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Jeff Dike wrote:
> 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?
> 

Actually, yes, esp. since the only case you have been able to bring up is 
one of the sysadmin being a moron.

	-hpa


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