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- From: losburn@teal.csn.org (Lynn Osburn)
- Subject: Re: Virtual Memory curiosity
- Message-ID: <BxM5C5.Jyw@csn.org>
- Keywords: VM overflow response
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:16:52 GMT
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- >
- >I've heard rumor that AIX will pick processes to kill off to avoid
- >running out of virtual memory? Can anyone verify this and if this is
- >true a) is there a way to disable this "feature" and b) what idiot
- >decided that randomly killing processes was a good idea??!!
-
- True in v3.1.x
-
- False in v3.2.x
- In 3.2, he just picks the larger process(es) and puts them to sleep (and
- swaps them) for a while until things improve. A much better solution to
- the problem, eh?
-
- -oz
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