Re: curious crashes when under memory pressure

From: Craig Leres <leres_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 21:11:05 UTC
On 1/4/25 10:40, Peter 'PMc' Much wrote:
> There might be a corresponding message in the system log for the
> "Killed", that would at least tell us the signal, maybe more.

I wish. One minute before I see:

     Jan  4 01:52:10 zinc.ee.lbl.gov kernel: : pid 21007 (conftest), jid 
3845, uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)

but I see a lot of those and I believe they're normal and autoconf related.

On 1/4/25 10:47, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
 > Redundancy in case of disk failure. I've seen many disk failures over
 > the years, and when you have a swap concatenated from partitions on 2
 > disks, the whole system mirrored on 2 disks, and 1 disk fails, the
 > system crashes. That's why we've always used swap over gmirrored
 > partitions. Then we can pull out one disk when system is running and
 > replace it with a new disk.

This. And in my case the system is located in a data center that I do 
not have casual access to so I'm happy to make the tradeoff in favor of 
system resilience.

		Craig