Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:39:52 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Jim Pazarena <fquest@paz.bz> Cc: Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: out of swap space Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK20Pt0A-G7KzJPhqXn%2BRruk8hF4B4nyhc0uKwxuHvfaMQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0fdf2022075b7a33f0abde4edd7c12a1@paz.bz> References: <0fdf2022075b7a33f0abde4edd7c12a1@paz.bz>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Jim Pazarena <fquest@paz.bz> wrote: > There is a lot of historical chatter about the amount of swap space > required. > But for my question, I haven't seen discussion: > What HAPPENS when the system flags "out of swap space". > Does a process die? or does the system merely become very sluggish? > Both, a process is killed and whenever you're starting to use swap space you should expect the system to become sluggish. > I have dozens of "out of swap space" messages, but I cannot find any dead > and/or failed jobs. > /var/log/messages should be listing exactly what was killed and when. It's probably on the console too. -- Adam
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