From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 29 07:31:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13395 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 07:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from soccer.inetspace.com (soccer.inetspace.com [206.50.163.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13356 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 07:31:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kgor@soccer.inetspace.com) Received: (from kgor@localhost) by soccer.inetspace.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA04255; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:29:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kgor) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:29:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804291429.JAA04255@soccer.inetspace.com> From: "Kent S. Gordon" To: dkelly@hiwaay.net CC: imp@village.org, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199804290309.WAA09692@nospam.hiwaay.net> (message from David Kelly on Tue, 28 Apr 1998 22:09:45 -0500) Subject: Re: ctm question Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "dkelly" == David Kelly 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. voice: (972)851-3494 fax:(972)702-0384 e-mail:kgor@inetspace.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message