Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:53:02 -0500 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug Message-ID: <4126.910720382@gjp.erols.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:06:25 EST." <v04011700b26e1fccb9c1@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote in message ID <v04011700b26e1fccb9c1@[128.113.24.47]>: > Presumably the message is there to give advance warning about the > usage of swap. A message that says "Hey, you're out of swap" just > seconds before the machine completely dies is not quite as useful > as one that tries to give you more advance notice (such that you > could think about adding more swap space next weekend). Then I'd prefer to see a user-tunable setting which prints out a kernel error when you reach a certain percentage of swap space used. IMHO, in a server environment, that makes much more sense as you want to keep everything possible in RAM, and using swap (any swap) is a last resort. Thats certainly how I try to tune my servers. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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