Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:30:54 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Elliot Finley <lists@efinley.com> Cc: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Code that crashes 3.4-Stable Message-ID: <20000310193054.D82572@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <38c96656.29361402@mail.afnetinc.com>; from lists@efinley.com on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:09:55AM %2B0000 References: <200003100251.SAA05266@cytosine.dhs.org> <38c96656.29361402@mail.afnetinc.com>
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:09:55AM +0000, Elliot Finley wrote:
>
> True, I could impose those limits, but the point is that the system
> crashes when it starts to swap... Should this be the case? How
> SHOULD FreeBSD handle this?
>
> In reality, I wouldn't WANT the system to swap, and if I was running
> low on RAM, I would add more... But if I didn't catch it in time, I
> would rather have the system take a BIG performance hit rather than
> crash...
It hasn't crashed, if I understood correctly what you wrote in your
previous posting. It just takes ages to respond to you.
The difference between a machine that has crashed and one that will wait
for the next 50 years[1] or so before giving you attention, is a subtle one
but altogether important. The ugly thing is that before waiting those
50 years, you don't know *if* the machine will ever respond to you, and
that is not a problem with the OS, or the machine, but with the limits
you have :)
[1] The number 50 is chosen quite at random here, it might be less, or
more! You never know ...
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