Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:51:26 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Cc: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@computeralt.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Out of Swap Space hangs system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903231250120.8802-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903232021440.76938-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Konrad Heuer wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Scott I. Remick wrote:
>
> > Is it normal for running out of swap space to hang the system?
>
> Unfortunately, yes. It should not be, especially for a server OS.
It hangs your system? Hmmm... I tried building both modula3 and
virtualpaper once - they used up all the swap I had and the machine didn't
hang. This was with some version of 2.2-STABLE awhile ago. Maybe I got
lucky.
Brett
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