Subject: Re: NetBSD crashing under high memory usage
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 04/05/2004 19:52:24
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> it happens (mostly observed) when squid -k rotate is started and 150MB
> squid process travels it's all VM space to write cache directory to
> /var/spool/squid/swap.state.
> 
> 
> it's not complete crash, i still can ping machine, routing/NAT still
> works, but anything else.

OK, so it's not crash as in panic, good. If you wait a while,
does it recover? The machine might be just thrashing. Turning
softdeps on for the squid cache filesystem might help ...

Jaromir 
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