SWAP Space: How do you increase it above the default 5 meg?
Brent Burton
n138ct at tamuts.tamu.edu
Thu Apr 11 14:54:10 AEST 1991
speaking of swap space and the number of processes, how many processes
total (ignore memory constraints) can a UPC handle?
Try this program at home: (got from comp.unix.wizards for how to crash a
unix system)
main()
{
fork();
main();
}
This program will doo-doo your system quite nicely. Mine didn't crash,
but it took 10 minutes and numerous calls to 'killall' to zap this beast.
Within 5 minutes over 8000 new processes were started. Wow!
(It seemed once you killed one, a chain of hundreds would die.)
My system (20M, 2MR, 3.51 at th~re time) started killing processes due
to no swap space.
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| Brent P. Burton | n138ct at tamuts.tamu.edu |
| Texas A&M University | Computer Science/Physics |
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