hmm, on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:28:12PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek said that > Depends on the arch. i386 is limited to 1G, amd64 is limited to 8G per > process. What happens if more memory is allocated than the available > swap is that the kernel will kill random processes to free swap. That > might be what is going on in your case. Also, in some cases a lack of > physical memory might kill processes.
the kernel will kill random processes? are we talking about linux's OOM here or openbsd? since when is this in openbsd? i seem to recall some debate where openbsd devs found that idea ridiculous. i know i do, and the machine should panic instead of starting shooting down processes. -f -- to get a loan you must prove you don't need it.
