>Try running a few instances of the following program
>
>	for(i in `{seq 10})
>		memeat -x 10000000

I tried this on our dual pentium(133MHz) without local disk jus now.

swap area (/n/gabbroother/swap/trachyte) grew up to 40MB, and I
stopped the program at that point.  Nothing bad happened.
I'll not try it on my notebook with local disk, because I know what
happenes.  :-)

Kenji