Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:05:36 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Micka=EBl_Can=E9vet?= <canevet@embl.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swapped memory limited to about 500MB for a process ? Message-ID: <44k3w0ij6n.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <1347268974.4141.65.camel@pc437.embl.fr> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22M?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?icka=EBl_Can=E9vet=22's?= message of "Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:22:54 %2B0200") References: <1347268974.4141.65.camel@pc437.embl.fr>
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Micka=EBl Can=E9vet <canevet@embl.fr> writes: > I was impacted by a memory leak that has been fixed by this patch: > http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/namei-leak.patch > > What I noticed when the server was paging is that it seems that only > about 500MB of my 4GB swap partition was used before crashing. I was > wondering why it didn't take the whole 4GB up to the crash of the server > because of lake of memory (that would let me more time to react). > > Is there such king of setting that prevent a process to put more then > 500MB of data in swap ? limits(1)?
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