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- From: philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Philip Machanick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Killed?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.142213.3373@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 14:22:13 GMT
- Article-I.D.: shannon.1992Nov5.142213.3373
- References: <1992Nov4.065527.4867@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za>
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept, Wits University
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- In article <1992Nov4.163355.12112@odin.corp.sgi.com> Marty Itzkowitz,
- martyi@nubbins.wpd.sgi.com writes:
- >Usually the message means that the system ran out of swap space, and
- killed
- >the process. While it is typically the process with the high demand for
- >swap that is killed, it is not always: the system is desperate, and
- strikes
- >out at someone.
-
- I had similar replies by mail from several people - thanks to all of you.
- Would it be so terribly difficult to print a message "out of swap space"
- in this situation?
- --
- Philip Machanick
- Computer Science Dept, Univ of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa
- philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za phone: 27 (11) 716-3759 fax: 339-7965
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