From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 6 13:49:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from netbank.com.br (garrincha.netbank.com.br [200.203.199.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B2D937B422 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 13:49:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from riel@conectiva.com.br) Received: from surriel.ddts.net (unknown [200.181.137.248]) by netbank.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E5846822; Sun, 6 May 2001 17:50:10 -0300 (BRST) Received: from localhost (olnars@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by surriel.ddts.net (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f46Kmui19468; Sun, 6 May 2001 17:48:56 -0300 Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 17:48:54 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-Sender: riel@imladris.rielhome.conectiva To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Kris Kennaway , Dennis Glatting , freebsd-stable@frebsd.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pgm to kill 4.3 via vm In-Reply-To: <81562.989176063@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 6 May 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > 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. The code is there, look at src/sys/vm/vm_pageout.c, line 1124 and further... Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message