vnode_pager_putpages hanged my machine

[Rob]

David Malone wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:07:45PM +0900, Rob wrote:
> 
>>Did the machine end up in an eternal loop and ate up all resources?
>>A bug in vnode? Or in the pager?
>
> It looks like convert was killed because it ran your machine out
> of memory - that might explain extream slugishness if everything
> else had been swapped out. It also looks like /var was completly
> full.

Yes, I agree.
But any regular user can bring the system virtually to a stand
still this way. Shouldn't the OS prevent this to happen?
That's why I suspect a bug somewhere allowing this to happen.

Regards,
Rob.