Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:18:59 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Cc: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@computeralt.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Out of Swap Space hangs system Message-ID: <19990323211859.16523.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903232021440.76938-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> of Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:26:25 %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903232021440.76938-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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> > Is it normal for running out of swap space to hang the system? > > Unfortunately, yes. Right, so far. > It should not be, especially for a server OS. By all means provide an algorithm to solve it, if it concerns you. I think you'll find it's non-trivial. > 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?). I'd be surprised if anybody was actively working on it. It's not a serious problem -- a properly setup Unix system will never crash from lack of swap. I've been running Unix machines for the best part of 20 years and never seen a panic from lack of swap. Some of those machines had 0.5 MB of RAM and a single 50 MB disk, supported several users in a commercial environment and only ever fell over when somebody yanked the power cord. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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