https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241848
--- Comment #4 from Mark Millard <marklmi26-f...@yahoo.com> --- (In reply to Mark Millard from comment #2) I should have noted: if a process stays runnable, FreeBSD does not stop it and swap it out but instead just pages it. (For FreeBSD, swapping basically seems to mean that the kernel stacks were also moved out to swap space and would have to be brought back in for the process to run.) Thus, 1 or more processes that use large amounts of memory relative to the RAM size but also stay runnable, are not not stopped and swapped out to make room. In such a context, if free RAM stays low, despite other efforts to gain some back, processses are then killed instead. vm.pageout_oom_seq controls how many attempts are made to gain more free RAM before the kills start. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
