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Article #510Re: Sys V handling of insufficient swap space.
From: ron
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1987 14:57
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1987 14:57
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In article <1078@hoxna.UUCP> lou@hoxna.UUCP ( L. Marco ) writes: > >> < Sys5 doesn't handle running out of swap space well. A program >> that supposedly demonstrates this is provided > > > First of all, your program won't run on many systems, >hoxna included, because that huge auto array you allocate won't fit >on the stack. (We're not *all* running Amdahls, y'know). > Well after trying to compile the er um crash program on my Sys V.2 Altos 3068, I realized that I needed to move the large array declaration out of local space and into global space, then it compiled fine. But the Altos eligantly handled the situation by returning a kernel generated error message indicating that the system was incapable of supporting the memory allocation request. So it turns out that at least this system protects itself from this type of devistation. -- ron@vsedev.VSE.COM (Ron Flax) UUCP: ..!seismo!vsedev!ron INET: vsedev.VSE.COM!ron@seismo.CSS.GOV
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!ulysses!gatech!mcnc!seismo!vrdxhq!vsedev!ron From: ron@vsedev.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: Sys V handling of insufficient swap space. Message-ID: <444@vsedev.VSE.COM> Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 09:57:58 EST Article-I.D.: vsedev.444 Posted: Wed Mar 4 09:57:58 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 22:37:55 EST References: <1035@wang7.UUCP> <1078@hoxna.UUCP> Reply-To: ron@vsedev.VSE.COM (Ron Flax) Organization: VSE Software Development Lab Lines: 24 Keywords: swap crash