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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 2003 23:22:43 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch to protect process from pageout killing
Message-ID:  <p05200f42baa5897e8dd8@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20030325012844.GB4406@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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At 5:28 PM -0800 3/24/03, David Schultz wrote:
>  Second, it is only marginally useful to go as far as specifying
>priorities and quotas and such on process killability.  Most of
>the time, people can divide the processes on thier system into
>two categories: critical and killable.

While that's probably true "most of the time", I think we'd want to
encourage three categories.  critical, less-critical (killable),
and kill-me-first.  That's what SIGDANGER provides, and in some
situations that third category is very desirable.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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