From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 6 12: 8: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450A537B422 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 12:08:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14wTsp-0001ee-00; Sun, 06 May 2001 21:07:55 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id VAA24366; Sun, 6 May 2001 21:07:52 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 24342; Sun May 6 21:07:43 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14wTsd-000LDX-00; Sun, 06 May 2001 21:07:43 +0200 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Dennis Glatting , freebsd-stable@frebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pgm to kill 4.3 via vm In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 May 2001 04:47:24 MST." <20010506044724.A24309@xor.obsecurity.org> Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 21:07:43 +0200 Message-ID: <81562.989176063@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 06 May 2001 04:47:24 MST, Kris Kennaway wrote: > What resource limits have you set? While that's a reasonable question when you're in a support role, I'd certainly like to hear whether "FreeBSD freezes on memory exhaustion" is something people "should just live with" or whether it's symptomatic of a bug that someone might one day want to fix but which folks should, for now, protect themselves against using resource limits. From my recollection of past threads, it was my understanding that having the operating system (though not all processes) "live through" memory starvation was feasible. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message