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Operating Systems Solaris Swap stress test Post 302790919 by jlliagre on Sunday 7th of April 2013 09:57:30 AM
Old 04-07-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by butchie3980
I compiled a program that uses malloc() to eat up memory, but the system will kill it before any swap space is used.
Can you elaborate ? Solaris shouldn't kill processes reserving memory. There is no OOM killer mechanism.
 

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killall(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       killall(1M)

NAME
killall - kill all active processes SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/killall [signal] DESCRIPTION
killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure. killall terminates all processes with open files so that the mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted. killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to the active processes. If no signal is specified, a default of 15 is used. The killall command can be run only by the super-user. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
kill(1), ps(1), fuser(1M), shutdown(1M), signal(3C), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 killall(1M)
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