Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 15:23:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: machine hangs when no memory/swap left ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105281522080.11907-100000@athena.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105281910040.436-100000@mobile.hub.org>
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On Mon, 28 May 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > stupid question, but shouldn't there be a mechanism to prevent that? > something to crash the process or somethign when the machine runs out of > virtual memory? It has always been my experience that it does. Basically the process that requests memory that doesn't exist, is killed. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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