From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 28 18:42:06 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA17708 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 18:42:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA17703 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 18:42:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA04952; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 13:17:20 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512290247.NAA04952@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: [2.1R] what happens when swap is full ? To: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com (M C Wong) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 13:17:20 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512282318.AA145212726@hp.com> from "M C Wong" at Dec 29, 95 10:18:44 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk M C Wong stands accused of saying: > I just have a lock up of the system in X session after loading > the swap space with as high as 96% and I think it's growing. In fact > the whole system just hangs again. Note, this is also a follow-up with > some paging errors which posted before and now I disabled the sd0s1b > leaving only wd0s2b (which is smaller) to see if the previous paging > errors will go away. Sorry, I don't recall your paging errors message; could you repost the bare details? > Is this the expected behavior when the swap is (nearly) full and > more pages then available needed to be paged out ? I don't think the system is allowed into overcommit anymore, so you should get processes killed off or not starting in the first place as you run out of swap. > Sorry I asked since I can't see any log/trace/message, and this > seems to happen overnight (while I was dreaming away ...). That's unusual, unless you have something running overnight with a memory leak. You're not running xperfmon by any chance are you? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[