From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 15:54:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA28363 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA28347 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.iafrica.com (root@chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id PAA11556 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:29:52 -0700 Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA08229; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 00:24:10 +0200 (SAT) X-Authentication-Warning: chain.iafrica.com: khetan owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 00:24:09 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: Jim Dennis cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swapper In-Reply-To: <201006142119.OAA17660@mistery.mcafee.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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