Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 16:35:53 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: dswartz@druber.com (Dan Swartzendruber) Cc: dg@root.com, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap-leak in 2.2.5 ? Message-ID: <199804052135.QAA00680@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980405172640.00915e30@mail.kersur.net> from Dan Swartzendruber at "Apr 5, 98 05:26:40 pm"
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Dan Swartzendruber said: > > My only quibble with this technique is that it would seem to make it > harder to tell if your machine is really running low on swap or not > (e.g. swap as backing store for stack/heap/whatever *is* critical and > allocation failure can cause application failure, whereas swap being > used to cache random cruft is in the "who really cares" department). > Or is there some way to tell the difference? > It is difficult not only to tell if you are low on swap, but also it is hard to quantify being low on memory. I have been thinking about this over the last year or so. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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