Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 04:10:56 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Arrgh ! resubscribing again again again.... Message-ID: <199807111110.EAA15688@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Jul 1998 09:25:11 -0000." <199807110925.CAA16987@usr08.primenet.com>
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>When no backing pages exist (becaues you've used them all up and are >out of swap space), the process requesting the page as a result of >the copy on write fault can not have its request satisfied. > >The result of an unsatified fault request is a SIGSEGV, or signal 11; Wrong. The result of running out of swap space is a SIGKILL, or signal 9. The bug that people are refering to seems to have been introduced around the time that John was messing with the VM map code, but might predate that to when he was messing with some of the swap pager algorithms. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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