From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 11:27: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D9014E56 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:26:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA76954; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:26:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:26:25 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: "Scott I. Remick" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Out of Swap Space hangs system In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990323120252.036ec890@mail.computeralt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Is it normal for running out of swap space to hang the system? Unfortunately, yes. It should not be, especially for a server OS. The only comfort is that Linux already (nearly) hangs if you use a lot of swap space.=09;-) To be serious: To my mind this problem should be addressed as soon as possible. I know each FreeBSD developer works for free - but this is a serious problem (maybe it has been fixed in -current?). Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _____= __=20 // Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __= / _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/= // / // Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___= /____/=20 // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----= - // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message