From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 3 17:12:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615FF15334 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:12:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from guppy.dons.net.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA07004; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:41:23 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 11:39:29 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" To: Kent Boortz Subject: Re: Out of swap hangs machine Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Dec-99 Kent Boortz wrote: > Freezed the mouse pointer in X for some time but worked ok. I will buy > more RAM but was more curious about the philosophy behind these memory > problems. I thought that the kernel reserved some memory to be able to > handle the situation. Is an ordinary user taking up all RAM, swap and Well 'the console' works, but login and getty are userland processes too, so they get swapped. The machine probably still responds to pings OK. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message