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- From: brad@cuba.cayman (Brad Parker)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD hangs
- Message-ID: <BRAD.92Sep11104423@cuba.cayman>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:44:23 GMT
- References: <ZCO6TOH@desert.in-berlin.de> <david.715668854@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>
- <1992Sep8.190240.23921@hippo.ru.ac.za>
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- In-reply-to: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za's message of 8 Sep 92 19:02:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.190240.23921@hippo.ru.ac.za> ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) writes:
-
- >I have had that happening. It usually happens when I do two large things
- >such as run GCC twice while under Xwindows.. The swapping will halt, and
- >the machine will go quiet. And stay that way.
-
- Similar experience here. Do two large "makes" of libraries and binaries
- from separate telnet sessions, and the system reboots every now and
- again. Bit of a curse, as it does not recognise the WD enet card at
- reboot unless I press the hardware reset button.
-
- I did some *very* simple testing and found that the system initially slows
- way down and the stops if you run out of swap space. (I really wanted
- pstat -s at the point ;-) Anyway, I looked around but was unable to
- find any swap space stats gathering, so I gave up.
-
- Does anyone know of or have any fixes for running out of swap space
- gracefully?
-
- -brad
- --
- A metaphor is like a simile.
-
- Brad Parker Cayman Systems, Inc., Cambridge, Ma. brad@cayman.com
-