Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 06:57:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: bee@wipinfo.soft.net, grog@lemis.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "3.2-RELEASE #0" crashed Message-ID: <199907261057.GAA44700@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <19990726155307.U51019@freebie.lemis.com>
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> >
> > $ cat crash.c
> > /* program to create "out of CPU" error */
> > #include<sys/types.h>
> > #include<unistd.h>
> >
> > main()
> > {
> > while(1)
> > if(fork()< 0) /* multiply... */
> > while(1); /* if no more processes, eat up CPU */
> > }
>
> It's interesting that you should have run out of swap before you ran
> out of processes, but basically I don't think what you're doing is a
> reasonable use of the system. No UNIX system handles this situation
> well, and FreeBSD is no exception. Since you supply a lot of
> information, but nothing on swap usage, I suspect that your swap
> partitions are too small.
>
> Greg
While it's certainly true most any UNIX system will slow to
a crawl in this case - should it crash?
- Dave Rivers -
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