Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:29:54 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Server overloaded? Or is it a bug? Message-ID: <22801B84-9602-11D7-8522-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200306032217.49730.dgw@liwest.at>
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On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 06:17 PM, Daniela wrote: [ ... ] > Is it possible that the process table is full (I had more than 450 processes > last time I ran top) or I ran out of memory (512M RAM + 1024M swap)? Yes, both things are possible, but FreeBSD should handle running out of resources much more gracefully than locking up. Normally, you'd see "cannot fork -- resource not available" type errors, not a frozen machine. -Chuck
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