Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:07:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811101055580.8312-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <3636.910712627@gjp.erols.com>
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Gary Palmer wrote: > John Dyson added this warning a few months ago, and the times that > I've seen it are when the machine *just* starts hitting swap space, > and is no-where near running out. No offense to John, but I don't > think that whatever algorythm he uses in generating that message is > anywhere near to being right, and I wonder what peoples opinions about > either hiding it behind bootverbose or removing it are? Even if the algorithm were right, the meaning of the message is clear as mud. So it tells me 125MB. Okay. Um... 125MB? What the heck am I supposed to do with that? Where did the number come from? What does it mean? The message isn't useful unless it can be understood. Judging from other people's comments, I'm not alone in being confused by it. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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