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- From: scott@austin.ibm.com
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: AIX malloc and fault tolerance
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.172208.25239@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 17:22:08 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.135156.9166@medtron.medtronic.com> <1992Sep4.044125.861@portal.hq.videocart.com>
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- Organization: IBM Austin
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- Originator: scott@porter.austin.ibm.com
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- >In article <1992Sep3.135156.9166@medtron.medtronic.com> sh0001@israel (Scott Hansohn) writes:
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- >Further, I have had processes receive SIGDANGER when only one of two paging
- >spaces on the system was close to filling. It seems that if >any< page
- >space on an AIX box gets close to being full you get the SIGDANGER, even if
- >there are other paging spaces with lots of room left. Yikes! So much for
- >the performance advantages of spreading the page space across spindles!
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- This shouldn't happen. You should only get SIGDANGER or SIGKILL when the
- TOTAL paging space runs low. It might be that one of your paging spaces
- wasn't activated.
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- Scott L. Porter IBM PSP Austin / AIX Kernel Development
- Internet: scott@glasnost.austin.ibm.com
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