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Date: Mon,  3 Sep 2007 19:39:35 +0200
From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?
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> but could you describe what antisocial behavior it exhibits and how one
> could reproduce this behavior?  i have never used to-disk paging on plan 9,
> so i don't know.


Last time I tried the machine did freeze, like rock solid. It happen at some
point after the swap partition was being used (saw its usage increase in stats).
Not always the same time interval from hitting return (to consume
memory) and get
the thing frozen. But this was several years ago, IIRC.