From: Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@knology.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: killing process wasRe: in place file splitter
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:26:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021113162607.GC1015@potpal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001901c28a99$ee2c3860$e11917cf@SD43.bc.ca>
Hi. When my memory filled up, the Kernel didn't just pick a process at
random. It started killing the processes that were eating up the
memory.
Kenny
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:22:03PM -0800, Tyler Spivey wrote:
> well, i guess you'd have to have enough memory to hold the whole file.
> that doesn't matter though, since the worst that can happen is that the
> kernel will kill any old process when the ram and swap fill up.
> i've had no swap, and my ram got filled and it killed anything - it picks a
> number at random and kills it.
> not very useful, just extreamly annoying - it should kill the process that
> is eating up all the ram.
> but now that we can add huge ammounts of swap space, this isn't a big issue
> anymore.
> just dd to a file with input from /dev/zero, run swapon, and if the file
> gets filled reboot so the swapspace
> isn't used, and trash it.
>
>
>
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