Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 14:20:29 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd VM behaviour Message-ID: <199806050620.OAA28939@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jun 1998 19:30:15 EST." <199806040030.TAA00603@dyson.iquest.net>
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"John S. Dyson" wrote: > Eivind Eklund said: > > > > When I kill -9 a frozen netscape (which has a lot of paged out pages), > > my machine freeze in mad swapping for several seconds. Is this > > anticipated behavour? > > > I have seen that on Netscape 3.0. It seems that recent -current is > better than older versions of -current and 2.2. I've seen it too. What I find odd is that there is so much intense paging supposedly just to free the address space. I'm curious why it pages in anything (much) just to free it all up. :-) A kill -9 doesn't cause any execution, so it shouldn't be the result of signal handlers firing up and paging data in etc. Of course, if the paging is a result of trying to free up space for temporary VM tables etc, then maybe that's different - but it still seems awfully big. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Netplex Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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