From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 13:55:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B512115648 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 13:55:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02692; Mon, 17 May 1999 13:55:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:55:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Anders Nordby Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What really happens when swap_pager is out of space In-Reply-To: <19990516050208.A62940@totem.fix.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 16 May 1999, Anders Nordby wrote: > By what rules are processes killed when swap_pager is out of space? I > administrate a system that is quite far away from me, and some time > ago I had it out of control as sshd was killed when swap_pager ran out > of space. Sshd was hardly using any memory at all, it was lots of > other processes (n copies of the same program running at the same > time) that used up the swap space. How can I increase the chances of > special processes surviving occurences like this? There was a recent argument on -hackers (or -current) about this, check the mail archives. I believe it is somewhere between 'the program that's asking for memory' and 'random.' :-) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message