Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:46:43 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: lozenko@cc.acnit.ac.ru (Evgeny A. Lozenko) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS client can kill FreeBSD :( Message-ID: <199612071846.TAA21685@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <AAoQ4go8s0@cc.acnit.ac.ru> from "Evgeny A. Lozenko" at "Dec 6, 96 04:15:46 pm"
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As Evgeny A. Lozenko wrote: > Kernel reports "kernel/ out of swap space", any processes starts > after this are killed. Well, so you ran out of swap space. :-} > Whats happened? Why NFS client can kill FreeBSD?This is FreeBSD > bug or no? It's not a bug... you're overloading the machine. You need to figure out either which processes were the real culprits (run `top' on the console, for example), and/or add more swap space. How much swap do you have? The ``rule of thumb'' is twice the amount of RAM, though your mileage may vary greatly. Everything between at least the size of your RAM and 5 or 10 times that much might be reasonable, depending on your usage pattern. I usually have ~ 150 MB swap available for a 32 MB RAM system, though this is for a mostly personal workstation where i used to have a bunch of unused X11 client around that eat up much swap space. (Swap usage normally peaks out at 100 MB, with an average continuous usage of at least 40...50 MB.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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