Disk space and processes shutting down

Hi,
Suppose my disk space at /x mount point is 100% and at /y is (say) 50%.
If my processes are running at /y, then will they be killed as my disk space is full at /x?
Assume am using /y for running some processes and /x for storing logs.
Regards,

An application is stored on disk and its processes may access a disk but the program runs in RAM. When you run out of RAM and the system can no longer perform vital functions, then as a last resort, the OOM killer will come into play. You can find more info about it searching in Google.
What happens when you run out of space for log files will depend on on how an application was written to handle this situation. Usually programs stop logging or try to remove old logs, and some programs may simply stop and wait for the problem to be resolved, e.g. Archivelog of Oracle RDBMS.
Edited by: Dude on May 29, 2011 4:14 PM

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