Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 16:19:13 -0700 From: Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@bsd.st> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: machine hangs when no memory/swap left ... Message-ID: <3B12DCF1.2050701@bsd.st> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105281941440.436-100000@mobile.hub.org>
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The Hermit Hacker wrote: >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 > add more memory or add more swap and setup login.conf limits... vn should help you with this Cheers, -JD- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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