Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: swap space exhaustion
Message-ID: <1989Sep15.162116.29789@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <89Sep12.214425edt.2245@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <1989Sep13.183918.8050@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <41737@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 16:21:16 GMT

In article <41737@sgi.sgi.com> jmb@patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton) writes:
>filling up swap won't crash the machine, the OS will instead start gunning
>down processes...

Would it be too much to ask that this be made a configuration option?
Some of us think that it is much better for a machine to crash cleanly
than to try to keep running with crucial processes (Murphy's Law says that
the gunned-down processes will be important daemons) dying randomly and
disrupting operations in bizarre ways.
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