From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Dec 7 10:54:16 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA05809 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:54:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA05779 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:54:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA15140; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:53:58 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA20948; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:53:57 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id TAA21685; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:46:43 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612071846.TAA21685@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: NFS client can kill FreeBSD :( To: lozenko@cc.acnit.ac.ru (Evgeny A. Lozenko) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:46:43 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Evgeny A. Lozenko" at "Dec 6, 96 04:15:46 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)