On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:23:19AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Brad Campbell wrote: > > > Picture lpd gets swapped out on a friday night. Over the weekend > > it is not used and the drive develops a bad sector in the middle > > of the file. Monday morning I want to print and the system tries > > to page lpd back in again. *boom*. > > admin issue ... user related services like printers should NOT be on > critical servers and take down what everybody will notice due to unrelated > printer problems The problem is not that an lpd process exists, the problem is that an attempt was made to swap back in a swapped out process while the swap device is screwed. It could happen to any process. Swap is part of your virtual memory, either keep it working or don't use it at all -- you cannot expect your server to keep on working when half its virtual memory is on a device that just died.
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