Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 17:48:54 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com>, freebsd-stable@frebsd.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pgm to kill 4.3 via vm Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105061748260.582-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <81562.989176063@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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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
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