process eating up all memory - what should happen next?

2013-03-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I have a process that eats up al memory, in my case science/paraview if I try to analyse a large model. What should FreeBSD do when a process tries to use all RAM or more? I my case I get a complete freeze, can't even login from the console, and requiring a cold reboot. I guess this is not

Re: process eating up all memory - what should happen next?

2013-03-07 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:01:03 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I have a process that eats up al memory, in my case science/paraview if I try to analyse a large model. What should FreeBSD do when a process tries to use all RAM or more? In this case, the swap space would be used, until the system

Re: process eating up all memory - what should happen next?

2013-03-07 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 7/3/2013 12:17 μμ, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:01:03 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I have a process that eats up al memory, in my case science/paraview if I try to analyse a large model. What should FreeBSD do when a process tries to use all RAM or more? In this case, the swap