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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:57:24 -0400
From:      Steve Shorter <steve@nomad.lets.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   VM exhaustion and kernel hangs
Message-ID:  <20010821115724.A2562@nomad.lets.net>

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Howdy!

	I have diskless frontends and would rather kill processes than
swap over NFS. I am running 4.3-SECURITY, and about every 2-3 days
the machine hangs, vmstat shows page scans (sr) going through the roof secounds
before it becomes unusable. I understand from reading the freebsd-stable 
archive (circa May 2001) that there is a bug in the vm around killproc,
which causes kernel lockups before processes are killed. Has this been
fixed yet in stable, or is there a patch/fix or other work around other than
adding more RAM?

	For you additional info I have 256M RAM and NO_SWAPPING defined in 
the kernel.


	Your shared experience/knowledge is much appreciated.

	Please Cc me personally with any responses.

	thanx - steve

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