Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 00:24:09 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> To: Jim Dennis <jimd@mcafee.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swapper Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960615002306.8215A-100000@chain.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <201006142119.OAA17660@mistery.mcafee.com>
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On Mon, 14 Jun 110, Jim Dennis wrote: > 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). This won't kill everyone's connections. It restarts only the swapper - nothing else is disturbed. Your login (the very one in which you type kill -1 0 as root) will be terminated - all other processes are untouched though. > 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'). I am. > Considering the side effects I don't see the advantage over just > restarting the whole machine. What side-effects ? It just flushes the swapper. Regards, Khetan Gajjar. --- Visit me at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002
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