Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:55:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What really happens when swap_pager is out of space Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171354460.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990516050208.A62940@totem.fix.no>
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On Sun, 16 May 1999, Anders Nordby wrote: > By what rules are processes killed when swap_pager is out of space? I > administrate a system that is quite far away from me, and some time > ago I had it out of control as sshd was killed when swap_pager ran out > of space. Sshd was hardly using any memory at all, it was lots of > other processes (n copies of the same program running at the same > time) that used up the swap space. How can I increase the chances of > special processes surviving occurences like this? There was a recent argument on -hackers (or -current) about this, check the mail archives. I believe it is somewhere between 'the program that's asking for memory' and 'random.' :-) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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