Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 16:05:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Ivan <Ivan.Djelic@prism.uvsq.fr>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909221603040.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909221807180.312-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > 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'. It wouldn't be all that difficult to track how many processes were affected or for how long they were affected by this and change to a kill strategy at that point. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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