From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 28 15:14:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8C7737B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 15:14:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alson@mediadesign.nl) Received: (qmail 9854 invoked by uid 1002); 28 May 2001 22:14:05 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:14:05 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: machine hangs when no memory/swap left ... Message-ID: <20010529001404.C4934@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: ; from scrappy@hub.org on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:10:55PM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:10:55PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > stupid question, but shouldn't there be a mechanism to prevent that? > something to crash the process or somethign when the machine runs out of > virtual memory? Linux kills random processes, usually some vital ones like init. You might like that better ;) -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: alson@linuxfreak.nl < > School: alson@gymnasiumleiden.nl < `-------------------------------------------' NO! Not that button! --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message