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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: running out of swap
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 21:24:36 -0500 (EST)
Cc: alk@Think.COM, current@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199604260022.RAA26021@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 25, 96 05:22:11 pm
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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.
> 
> Send demonstration code to John, please.
> 
> 
Good idea...  dyson@freebsd.org...

Thanks
John