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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 ...
>
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add more memory or add more swap and setup login.conf limits...

vn should help you with this

Cheers,
-JD-



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