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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!think.com!cayman!brad 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> Sender: news@cayman.COM Organization: You must be kidding... Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: cuba In-reply-to: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za's message of 8 Sep 92 19:02:40 GMT 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