Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 23:12:31 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: berend@pobox.com (Berend de Boer) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap_pager: out of swap space, only power off did help Message-ID: <199805020412.XAA00781@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <01BD754F.A0AB9EF0.berend@pobox.com> from Berend de Boer at "May 1, 98 10:22:28 pm"
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Berend de Boer said: > > 2. How can I prevent this? > > The most important question of course. FreeBSD should not hang in such a > case, but be ale to continue somehow, maybe by killing the offender. It's > very easy to kill a FreeBSD machine in this respect. Just send it a 10MB > msg and oops, the machine goes down. > I suggest setting the ulimit for the process so that it cannot allocate "too much" memory. In 2.2.X, it isn't likely to see major changes. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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