On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:37:27AM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote:
> NetBSD appears to allocate swap space using the 'deferred' or 'lazy' mode.
> How does NetBSD actually allocate swap space?

lazy allocations.

> Could a process be killed
> because of insufficient swap space?

Yes. I don't know if it's the process which tries to allocate more swap
space, or the one with the largest data size which gets killed when swap gets
low.

There was a thread about this in tech-kern not very long ago (which
turned to a flame war), see http://mail-index.netbsd.org.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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