From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 22 15: 9:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0241114CCC for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:09:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12025; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:08:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:08:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Wes Peters Cc: Alfred Perlstein , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Ivan , Matthew Dillon , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R In-Reply-To: <37E93534.1A0D164F@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > What kind of resources are there that both cause loss of swap AND are > > freed up by sleeping a process? > > Any of them being consumed by short-lived processes that will run to > completion and exit while everyone else is sleeping. This assumes such > processes exist, of course. OK, you wait until some process exits. Ob course, if none do, then your entire machine, all processes that ask for memory, wedge, instead of just one. You can't even start 'kill -9'. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message