Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:34:37 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Jonathan <j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X session crashes after running out of swap space Message-ID: <20031009033437.GC59401@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <200310082225.01973.j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net> References: <200310082225.01973.j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net>
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:25:01PM -0500, Jonathan wrote:
> I tested the latest source and it seems to work OK. USB scanning works.
> However when i start multiple sessions of Octave, a MatLab clone, and have it
> do huge computations it crashes my Kde 3.1.3 desktop because the computer has
> run our of swap space. This did not happen in 4.8. If the machine ran out of
> swap space in 4.8, it just killed the offending application.
Actually, it kills the largest process.
See vm/vm_pageout.c and search for "out of swap":
/*
* If we are out of swap and were not able to reach our paging
* target, kill the largest process.
*/
Edwin
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