On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:10:02PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > It is bad to hang the system, but if it reports swap failure, at least > the admin knows why it failed, rather than killing random processes. I wonder if it might be better to suspend whatever process is trying to allocate/write to too much memory. At least then you have some chance of keeping the system up (obviously you'd need to leave some amount free so you could login to the box to fix things). -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828
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