Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 17:12:11 +0900 From: Rob <nospam@users.sourceforge.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vnode_pager_putpages hanged my machine Message-ID: <404D7C5B.9040104@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <20040309080145.GA35678@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <404D6D41.3040508@users.sourceforge.net> <20040309080145.GA35678@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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David Malone wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:07:45PM +0900, Rob wrote: > >>Did the machine end up in an eternal loop and ate up all resources? >>A bug in vnode? Or in the pager? > > It looks like convert was killed because it ran your machine out > of memory - that might explain extream slugishness if everything > else had been swapped out. It also looks like /var was completly > full. Yes, I agree. But any regular user can bring the system virtually to a stand still this way. Shouldn't the OS prevent this to happen? That's why I suspect a bug somewhere allowing this to happen. Regards, Rob.
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