From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 28 16:45:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bluenugget.net (babyviolence.com [64.3.150.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD06637B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 16:45:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geniusj@bsd.st) Received: from bsd.st (windows.box [64.3.150.191]) by bluenugget.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2051360B; Mon, 28 May 2001 16:14:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B12DCF1.2050701@bsd.st> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 16:19:13 -0700 From: Jason DiCioccio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: Tom , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: machine hangs when no memory/swap left ... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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