All I am migrating from FreeBSD 6.3 to FreeBSD 8.1 And I have noticed some, what I think is, strange behaviour.
In FreeBSD 6.3 when I do > swapoff -a > dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/whatever bs=1G count=1 I get something like "out of memory - killed" In FreeBSD 8.1 doing the same - processes around start to die, e.g. all getty's are killed and finally devfs goes the same way. My target is diskless nfs mounted to a linux fileserver - hence no swap partition It does not seem to be relalted to the nfs root however - I get the same behaviour running FBSD-8.1 in a VMWARE server session. Is this a new 'feature' of FBSD or just a bug? Are there some sysctl's to set to 'really' turn of swapping. At one instance I also got a kernel panic saying 'page fault in kernel' but I'm having a hard time to repeat just that. regards Mats _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
