From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 11:52:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1D014FA5 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:52:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA08910; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:51:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:51:26 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Konrad Heuer Cc: "Scott I. Remick" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Out of Swap Space hangs system In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message