From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 17 11:12:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from goliath.camtech.net.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A2214D59 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 11:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thyerm@camtech.net.au) Received: from camtech.net.au (dialup-ad-13-63.camtech.net.au [203.55.243.191]) by goliath.camtech.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id DAA11759; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 03:45:13 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <3718CE86.E7FFA6F2@camtech.net.au> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 03:40:14 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh , mi@aldan.algebra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap-related problems References: <199904142340.TAA96857@misha.cisco.com> <199904150432.WAA07661@harmony.village.org> <3718CC80.11C1BE27@camtech.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Replying to myself... You'd have to be able to specify the absolute maximum memory use for a process to ensure you'd still kill run-aways (These would go first! regardless of the other rules maybe). Matthew Thyer wrote: > > There is obviously a problem when all swap is exhausted. > > The only solution is to allow the additional memory *use* to succeed AND > to warn the sysadmin that ALL virtual memory has been exhausted. > -- /=======================================================================\ | Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au | \=======================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message