From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 06:58:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA25653 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 06:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blanco.sadeya.cesca.es (blanco.sadeya.cesca.es [192.94.163.146]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA25648 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 06:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cyan.infortecnica.es ([193.148.6.29]) by blanco.sadeya.cesca.es (8.6.11/8.7.0) with SMTP id PAA11547; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 15:58:07 +0200 Message-ID: <31C2DD22.4045@sadeya.cesca.es> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 15:56:18 +0000 From: Carlos Amengual Organization: SADEYA X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Khetan Gajjar CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swapper References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Khetan Gajjar wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jun 110, Jim Dennis wrote: > > > I misunderstood your message and thought you were giving us a > > way to selectively kill just the processes that are swapped to > > disk (some special signal handling in the 'swapper'). > > I am. > > > Considering the side effects I don't see the advantage over just > > restarting the whole machine. > > What side-effects ? It just flushes the swapper. But which benefit does one get from doing this ? Carlos -- ========================================================== Carlos Amengual - Sociedad Astronómica de España y América Avenida Diagonal, 377, 2 - 08008 Barcelona - Spain amengual@sadeya.cesca.es - http://www.sadeya.cesca.es/ ==========================================================