Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:29:54 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kent S. Gordon" <kgor@inetspace.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: imp@village.org, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ctm question Message-ID: <199804291429.JAA04255@soccer.inetspace.com> In-Reply-To: <199804290309.WAA09692@nospam.hiwaay.net> (message from David Kelly on Tue, 28 Apr 1998 22:09:45 -0500)
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>>>>> "dkelly" == David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> writes:
> Warner Losh writes:
>> In message <199804281529.KAA02000@soccer.inetspace.com> "Kent
>> S. Gordon" writ es: : I had this problem until I allowed for
>> move memory usage by cvs. I : would check the login classes
>> used by both the cvs server and the : client. diff of multiple
>> megabyte files can take a lot of memory.
>>
>> Give that man a cigar! That did the trick for me.
> More detail please! How does one track down the login classes
> used by such processes?
> I've found a near sure fire way to totally lock up my FreeBSD
> 2.2.6-stable system is to have Netscape Navigator 3.01 (the
> 128-bit version) up, XFree86 3.3.1, Mach32 server, and to run
> "cd /usr/ports && cvs -q update -d" in an xterm.
> The above almost always freezes my 64MB PPro-200, and always
> about the time cvs is about to finish. No Navigator, no
> problem. Thought it might be a bad block in my swap partition so
> I moved swap to another disk, no change. Split swap across both
> disks, no change.
man login.conf to see how to set up login classes. If you use vipw
the 5th field field has the login class that will be used for a
particular user. I have found the default way to low for doing
serious development or as a heavy user (anyone running netscape will
be a heavy user of system resources).
> Am not running a cvs or ctm server.
> -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
> =====================================================================
> The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
> capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
--
Kent S. Gordon
Architect
iNetSpace Co.
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