2013/5/19 Joshua Isom <jri...@gmail.com>: > On 5/19/2013 3:00 PM, David Demelier wrote: >> >> Hello there, >> >> I've had a process on state "pfault" and it was just unkillable, kill >> -9 had no effects and because the script was doing an infinite loop >> the machine was slower and slower so the only way to fix that was a >> reboot. >> >> Why kill -9 has still no effects on some bad processes? >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Demelier David > > > A process can be unkillable if it's holding a lock, like reading from disk. > Eventually, the lock will release and it should die. You can use limits to > change how much CPU and memory a process can use. My guess is what happened > is it started using a lot of memory, but you ran out and have a lot of swap. > It was trying to run while using your hard drive instead of ram. With > limits, you should be able to prevent it from using swap which could help, > and cap the amount of ram and cpu.
Hello, thank you for that precise explanation, I will add limits into the new rctl.conf, however I don't know how many amount of ram I should allow, in fact I have absolutely no idea how much of ram an usual program eats, is 50Mo enough for user applications ? Regards, -- Demelier David _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
