Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 10:58:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: Freebsd hackers list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Runaway processes freeze the system Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1804211057220.36903@puchar.net> In-Reply-To: <e6655853-07e6-4473-31c6-b35f35990ec5@rawbw.com> References: <e6655853-07e6-4473-31c6-b35f35990ec5@rawbw.com>
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> size should reduce the chance of this happening, but it obviously can't > eliminate the problem. > > > What is the expected behavior of the system in such situation? To me it looks > like it is wait-and-see, and this causes this problem. > > A better strategy would be to maybe wait for some time, but if when the > problem persists to kill the largest, the most active, or the offending > process. > > > 11.1 amd64 it's better to have more swap than memory. second it's good to use ulimit to prevent overallocating memory you may just edit login.conf and do cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf and relogin
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