Date: Mon, 14 Jun 110 14:19:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dennis <jimd@mcafee.com> To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Cc: jimd@mcafee.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swapper Message-ID: <201006142119.OAA17660@mistery.mcafee.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960614230939.5103D-100000@chain.iafrica.com> from "Khetan Gajjar" at Jun 14, 96 11:10:46 pm
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> > On Mon, 14 Jun 110, Jim Dennis wrote: > > > Please tell me more about this syntax. > > There's nothing to it, really. kill -1 hups a process, > and swapper runs as process 0. Therefore kill -1 0 as root will hup > the swapper and restart it (effectively). It'll kill your current session, > but hey.... Ahhh! -- that's what I thought it would do. That's why I've never tried it (I hate killing my connections -- and I hate killing *everyone's* connections even more). I misunderstood your message and thought you were giving us a way to selectively kill just the processes that are swapped to disk (some special signal handling in the 'swapper'). > > > Where could I read more about this? > > I couldn't find anything about it. One of the ugu (unix gurus) I know > does it. Considering the side effects I don't see the advantage over just restarting the whole machine.
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