Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 08:44:31 -0400 From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: Juri Tsibrovski <jt@sw.ru> Cc: dg@Root.COM, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Considering FreeBSD Message-ID: <199607311244.IAA24980@garion.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jul 1996 16:24:07 %2B0400." <2.2.32.19960731122407.00b12a5c@myth.sw.ru>
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-------- Juri Tsibrovski uttered with conviction: >At 00:06 29.07.96 -0700, David Greenman wrote: >>>On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Paul J. Mech wrote: >>> >>>> 0) When Linux runs out of virtual memory, it crashes. What is FreeBSD's >>>> behavior under these conditions? >>> >>>FreeBSD will start killing processes until the memory problem is resolved. >>>This usually means the program that is trying to start, and working >>>backward. Occaisionally the VM system gets too busy and kills init, but >>>that is very rare. >> >> FreeBSD will never kill init or any process whose process id is less than >>48. In the extremely unlikely event that the process consuming all the memory >>has a pid less than 48, the system will hang. This is extremely unlikely >>because when the pids wrap at 32767, then wrap back to 100, so usually only >>processes that were started at system startup time will have pids < 100. Just FYI.. the wraparound for FreeBSD is 30000 and is defined by PID_MAX in /sys/sys/proc.h. -branson -- ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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