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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Subject: Re: kern/18394: When /swap if full ? 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/18394; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: legros@efrei.fr
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/18394: When /swap if full ? 
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 16:09:46 +0200

 On Fri, 05 May 2000 00:57:09 MST, legros@efrei.fr wrote:
 
 > I'll give you output of "uname -a" this evening (Paris time...)
 
 Next time, wait 'til you've got all the information on hand.  There's no
 rush here. :-)
 
 > Trying to hang up machine with $yes 'yes'. Then watching stats with
 > a "top".  First RAM is totally filled, and than /swap. At this state
 > machine crashs.
 
 This looks bogus to me.  Could you double-check what you're typing at
 the command prompt?  Is it really
 
 	$yes 'yes'
 
 ?
 
 That won't crash a machine (or even put too much stress on it).  Since
 the variable $yes is empty, and since the shell gobbles the quotes,
 you're effectively typing this:
 
 	yes
 
 Since this program doesn't have a memory leak, I think you're doing
 something odd.  Do you have the $yes variable set to anything before you
 do this?
 
 Seeing the exact messages issued at crash time, or even better a
 backtrace of the crash dump would help, but at this stage, I don't
 believe you. :-)
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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