From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 13 11:44:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3236B37BC4D for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:44:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA41334; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:44:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200006131844.LAA41334@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: David Gilbert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worst case swapping. References: <14660.3153.658226.142964@trooper.velocet.net> <39453CC0.C19BB2CD@newsguy.com> <200006122358.QAA35805@apollo.backplane.com> <39466072.716FC252@newsguy.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :Matthew Dillon wrote: :> :> One of the reasons I would like to see an actual 'ps axl' output :> during one of these heavy paging periods rather then someone's analysis :> of the output, is to check things like this. : :Don't look at me. After half an hour waiting, all I had managed to was :switching to a console and having the letter "t" show up (I was trying :for a "top"). : :-- :Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) :dcs@newsguy.com It's probably something running away, eating all available memory. If netscape isn't crashing on you from this then it could be a subprocess within netscape (e.g. java). Try setting a datasize limit. Set a 128MB datasize limit so no single process can thrash the machine. Another thing you can do if you believe the problem to be netscape is to run netscape from a shell, in the foreground, and when the machine starts to die try ^Z'ing it and then do a ps axll -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message