Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 19:42:51 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: machine hangs when no memory/swap left ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105281941440.436-100000@mobile.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105281522080.11907-100000@athena.uniserve.ca>
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On Mon, 28 May 2001, Tom wrote: > > 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. Any way of turning this feature on? :) I have a hung, remote machine right now that is out of memory ... we caught it "just about to do it" earlier today, and it actually did it this evening :( This aft, it was two 400Meg httpsd processes that brought her close, so I'm guessing similar this evening did her in ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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