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echo: rberrypi
to: DRUCK
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2020-01-27 18:45:00
subject: Re: Question about ever g

On 27/01/2020 16:13, druck wrote:
> On 26/01/2020 06:54, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>> If the swap file is full then what will happen?
>
> In practice the system will appear to hang for a while, possibly a long
> while, until applications which require more memory either exit cleanly
> or crash, freeing up some memory and/or swap.
>
Er no. calls to malloc() will fail and serious errors in applications
will happen.

> ---druck


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