From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 15 20: 2:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from totem.tihlde.hist.no (totem.tihlde.hist.no [158.38.48.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BCE14D39 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 20:02:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anders@totem.tihlde.hist.no) Received: (from anders@localhost) by totem.tihlde.hist.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA63410 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 16 May 1999 05:02:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 05:02:08 +0200 From: Anders Nordby To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What really happens when swap_pager is out of space Message-ID: <19990516050208.A62940@totem.fix.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE X-Disclaimer: Listen, and thou shall not fear. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG By what rules are processes killed when swap_pager is out of space? I administrate a system that is quite far away from me, and some time ago I had it out of control as sshd was killed when swap_pager ran out of space. Sshd was hardly using any memory at all, it was lots of other processes (n copies of the same program running at the same time) that used up the swap space. How can I increase the chances of special processes surviving occurences like this? -- Anders Nordby ^ anders@fix.no ^ http://anders.fix.no/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message