From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 10 09:53:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23419 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23402 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:53:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA04130; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:53:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) To: Garance A Drosihn cc: John Fieber , current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:06:25 EST." Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:53:02 -0500 Message-ID: <4126.910720382@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn wrote in message ID : > 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