Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:46:43 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca> Cc: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Message-ID: <378D67B3.3E2A703C@newsguy.com> References: <199907142009.NAA22442@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>
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John Nemeth wrote: > > The machine in question has run out of swap, due to unforseeable > excessive memory demands. This was accompanied by processes > complaining about not being able to allocate memory and then cleaning > up after themselves. I did not see random processes being killed > because of it. That is the way things should be. From this, I can > assume that the OS doesn't overcommit. In case, you're wondering, the > OS in question is: > > SunOS 5.5 Generic_103093-25 sun4u sparc Uh... like any modern unix, Solaris overcommits. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Would you like to go out with me?" "I'd love to." "Oh, well, n... err... would you?... ahh... huh... what do I do next?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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