Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:44:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worst case swapping. Message-ID: <200006131844.LAA41334@apollo.backplane.com> References: <14660.3153.658226.142964@trooper.velocet.net> <39453CC0.C19BB2CD@newsguy.com> <200006122358.QAA35805@apollo.backplane.com> <39466072.716FC252@newsguy.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
:
:Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>
:> One of the reasons I would like to see an actual 'ps axl' output
:> during one of these heavy paging periods rather then someone's analysis
:> of the output, is to check things like this.
:
:Don't look at me. After half an hour waiting, all I had managed to was
:switching to a console and having the letter "t" show up (I was trying
:for a "top").
:
:--
:Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
:dcs@newsguy.com
It's probably something running away, eating all available memory.
If netscape isn't crashing on you from this then it could be a
subprocess within netscape (e.g. java). Try setting a datasize limit.
Set a 128MB datasize limit so no single process can thrash the machine.
Another thing you can do if you believe the problem to be netscape is
to run netscape from a shell, in the foreground, and when the machine
starts to die try ^Z'ing it and then do a ps axll
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200006131844.LAA41334>