Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 00:06:16 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: "Paul J. Mech" <paul@coil.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Considering FreeBSD Message-ID: <199607290706.AAA26201@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:21:45 PDT." <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728161842.226D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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>On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Paul J. Mech wrote: > >> To all who have responded, thanks very much for your comments. I am >> definitely going to try installing FreeBSD. I have a few technical questions >> though. >> >> 0) When Linux runs out of virtual memory, it crashes. What is FreeBSD's >> behavior under these conditions? > >FreeBSD will start killing processes until the memory problem is resolved. >This usually means the program that is trying to start, and working >backward. Occaisionally the VM system gets too busy and kills init, but >that is very rare. FreeBSD will never kill init or any process whose process id is less than 48. In the extremely unlikely event that the process consuming all the memory has a pid less than 48, the system will hang. This is extremely unlikely because when the pids wrap at 32767, then wrap back to 100, so usually only processes that were started at system startup time will have pids < 100. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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