From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 3:59:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.vnet.net (smtp2.vnet.net [166.82.1.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C1514BEE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 03:59:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp2.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA29591; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 06:57:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA02071; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 06:57:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id GAA44700; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 06:57:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 06:57:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199907261057.GAA44700@lakes.dignus.com> To: bee@wipinfo.soft.net, grog@lemis.com Subject: Re: "3.2-RELEASE #0" crashed Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990726155307.U51019@freebie.lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > $ cat crash.c > > /* program to create "out of CPU" error */ > > #include > > #include > > > > main() > > { > > while(1) > > if(fork()< 0) /* multiply... */ > > while(1); /* if no more processes, eat up CPU */ > > } > > It's interesting that you should have run out of swap before you ran > out of processes, but basically I don't think what you're doing is a > reasonable use of the system. No UNIX system handles this situation > well, and FreeBSD is no exception. Since you supply a lot of > information, but nothing on swap usage, I suspect that your swap > partitions are too small. > > Greg While it's certainly true most any UNIX system will slow to a crawl in this case - should it crash? - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message