From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 13:39:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 763F91541C for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:39:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 16524 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Mar 1999 21:18:59 -0000 Message-ID: <19990323211859.16523.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:18:59 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Konrad Heuer Cc: "Scott I. Remick" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Out of Swap Space hangs system References: In-reply-to: of Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:26:25 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message