Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 19:02:58 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running out of swap Message-ID: <199604260202.TAA07131@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Apr 1996 01:42:32 CDT." <199604250642.BAA01844@compound.Think.COM>
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>Striding through a very large mmap, I discovered that >FreeBSD will lock up when it runs out of swap. >It would be nicer to terminate the offending process. A run-out-of-swapspace test is one of the regression tests that we regularly do. It's not _supposed_ to hang the machine (see code in vm_fault.c and vm_pageout.c that finds kills off the process). If you have a test case that does cause a hang, then please send me or John the code. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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