Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 00:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/18394: When /swap if full ? Message-ID: <200005080720.AAA99933@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/18394; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/18394: When /swap if full ? Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 09:12:31 +0200 On Mon, 08 May 2000 10:09:26 +1000, Gregory Bond wrote: > > $yes 'yes' > > Hmm, if it were > $yes `yes` > (nb: back-tic not apostrophe) then this would run out of swap space... > eventually. In which case, a simple `yes` would suffice. Note that it's the shell that exhausts memory, not the yes process. So now the the originator needs to tell us whether this is still a problem when he uses login.conf(5) resource limits properly. I still think this is bogus. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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