Re: Heavy Build crashes machine

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From: Jim Wilson
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1993 03:56

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In article <236ruq$7j5@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang) writes:
>Hi.  I seem to recall a thread (in comp.os.386bsd.questions)  a while ago 
>that talked about a problem with large compiles hanging machines.

The problem is 386bsd/NetBsd/BSD386/FreeBSD/and anything else derived from the
BSD Net2 sources.

These systems all have a fatal flaw in the VM system.  When the VM system
runs out of memory (RAM+swap), the entire OS hangs, and you need to reboot
the machine.

The only solution is to make sure you have enough swap space so that you will
never run out of virtual memory.

Jim

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