Re: Does Memory have to get swapped in to be freed?

To: Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: Does Memory have to get swapped in to be freed?
From: Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:21:35 +0000

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 09:10:28PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:

> FWIW, killing an "ages old" (couple of weeks) firefox on NetBSD
> 4.0 results in a lot disk activity then a "hang" for anywhere up
> to 3 or 4 minutes before the system recovers normally. 

Just a guess, but it could be threading. For -current a lot of time has
been spent on making coredumps and forced exits work properly with with
multithreaded processes.

Andrew

References:
- Re: Does Memory have to get swapped in to be freed?
  - From: Manuel Bouyer
- Re: Does Memory have to get swapped in to be freed?
  - From: Simon Burge

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