From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 28 15:43:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.hub.org (SHW39-29.accesscable.net [24.138.39.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A82537B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 15:43:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by mobile.hub.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4SMgp208810; Mon, 28 May 2001 19:43:12 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mobile.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 19:42:51 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Tom Cc: Subject: Re: machine hangs when no memory/swap left ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 28 May 2001, Tom wrote: > > On Mon, 28 May 2001, 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? > > It has always been my experience that it does. Basically the process > that requests memory that doesn't exist, is killed. Any way of turning this feature on? :) I have a hung, remote machine right now that is out of memory ... we caught it "just about to do it" earlier today, and it actually did it this evening :( This aft, it was two 400Meg httpsd processes that brought her close, so I'm guessing similar this evening did her in ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message