From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 28 15:50: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ramstind.gtf.ol.no (ramstind.gtf.ol.no [128.39.174.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D891837B43C for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 15:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Received: from localhost (trond@localhost) by ramstind.gtf.ol.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA35301; Tue, 29 May 2001 00:49:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:49:56 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: Subject: Re: machine hangs when no memory/swap left ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT 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, 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? Won't some sane values for some class in /etc/login.conf limit the amount memory available to users in the chosen class? The default class is ok to use for most users, but use the daemon class for processes started during boot. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 3.5-S & Pine 4.31 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message