Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:48:17 -0500 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: robh@imdb.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: server death when swap space is all gone. Message-ID: <29680.846740897@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Oct 1996 19:57:03 GMT." <199610281957.TAA10074>
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Rob Hartill wrote in message ID <199610281957.TAA10074>: > > A couple of time now I've seen Freebsd (2.1.0 and 2.1.5-STABLE) collapse > into a smouldering mess after user processes consume all available swap space > . > > A web server went belly up last night because of this. > Why can't the OS recover from this ?. The memory hungry processes die > off eventually, but instead the machine locks up and needs to be rebooted. I'm curious to hear this ... I often run my workstation out of memory (too conservative on swap allocation) and NEVER have a lockup problem. Same with the news box, which sometimes runs out of memory for some strange reason. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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