Complaint about VM behavior, etc.

[Nikolaos Fotis]

I would like to express my thoughts about the Virtual Memory behavior on
SunOS 4.1, Sun 3's (I haven't tested under other versions/models).

More specifically, when the VM becomes exhausted, the server simply
crashes :-(, causing much grief to the rest of the Sun users here.

I don't like this behavior, and I would like to hear why this policy was
selected, instead of simply killing the first process that violates the
swap area limit and immediately reclaiming its pages.

Is this a bug or a feature???

Please send mail, and I'll summarize.
Nick.

PS. what happened to the Sun compilers? Not only is C the only language
included, but the old programs that ran under SunOS 3.5, now don't.
(specific example: the code for the procedural database creation by E.
Haines, doesn't work reliably either with gcc nor cc)

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