nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr (Nikolaos Fotis) (10/08/90)
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) Nikolaos Fotis E-mail: 16 Esperidon St., UUCP: mcsun!ariadne!theseas!nfotis Halandri, GR - 152 32 or: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr Athens, GREECE