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To: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM>
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Subject: Re: running out of swap 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 19:02:58 -0700
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>Striding through a very large mmap, I discovered that
>FreeBSD will lock up when it runs out of swap.
>It would be nicer to terminate the offending process.

   A run-out-of-swapspace test is one of the regression tests that we
regularly do. It's not _supposed_ to hang the machine (see code in vm_fault.c
and vm_pageout.c that finds kills off the process). If you have a test case
that does cause a hang, then please send me or John the code.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project