Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:52:59 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel killing processes when out of swap Message-ID: <0c9a92c2eb7461f25aa924322407f950@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <014301c53eb5$42638bf0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <014301c53eb5$42638bf0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
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--Apple-Mail-19--284690505 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Apr 11, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: > of swap? Which leads to the question would it not be more sensible to > kill off the largest process first as its more than likely that it is > responsible > for the problem? > so when this largest process is your production database server for your e-commerce site, what will you change your recommendation to be? basically, there is no "right" choice of process to kill. a machine that is out of resources is just a bad situation, and the right thing is to try to avoid getting there with careful monitoring and planning. Vivek Khera, Ph.D. +1-301-869-4449 x806 --Apple-Mail-19--284690505--
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