swapspace on DECstations?

[Richard van den Berg <R.vandenBerg@inter.NL.net>]

Hello,

Is it known that using a swap partition is a no go on DECstations,
garanteed to halt the system? It looks like that a swapped out process
doesn't get swapped back, for example a telnet session unused for a
while becomes dead. Compiling kernel or egcs the machine halts within
the hour silently, or that the compiler receives a fatal signal as the
last message.

Using no swap space this is possible:

 11:34pm  up 2 days,  1:31,  1 user,  load average: 0.17, 0.74, 0.93

Regards,
Richard