On Sun, 6 May 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Sun, 06 May 2001 04:47:24 MST, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > What resource limits have you set?
>
> While that's a reasonable question when you're in a support role, I'd
> certainly like to hear whether "FreeBSD freezes on memory exhaustion" is
> something people "should just live with" or whether it's symptomatic of
> a bug that someone might one day want to fix but which folks should, for
> now, protect themselves against using resource limits.
>
> From my recollection of past threads, it was my understanding that
> having the operating system (though not all processes) "live through"
> memory starvation was feasible.
The code is there, look at src/sys/vm/vm_pageout.c, line
1124 and further...
Rik
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