On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:12:15PM +0000, John Baldwin wrote: > jhb 2008-07-30 21:12:15 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > sys/vm swap_pager.c > Log: > SVN rev 181019 on 2008-07-30 21:12:15Z by jhb > > If the kernel has run out of metadata for swap, then explicitly panic() > instead of emitting a warning before deadlocking. > > MFC after: 1 month > > Revision Changes Path > 1.303 +1 -1 src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c
Hmm, would it make sense to attempt to sync the filesystems ? We panic due to resource exhaustion as opposed to some data consistency violation. Sure, sync might deadlock too, because we may be in the low memory condition.
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