From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 21:54:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2256B15510 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:54:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id NAA29091; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:54:16 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <378D67B3.3E2A703C@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:46:43 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Nemeth Cc: Ben Rosengart , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) References: <199907142009.NAA22442@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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