Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:41:10 -0500 From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@bluecirclesoft.com> To: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic) Message-ID: <20040118064110.GC49083@www.bluecirclesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4009D71E.3020209@gldis.ca> References: <6.0.1.1.1.20040116175159.03f4dd48@imap.sfu.ca> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040117185613.22159B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040118000417.02bbee70@imap.sfu.ca> <4009D71E.3020209@gldis.ca>
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--4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:45:18PM -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: > >At 23:59 17/01/2004, Robert Watson wrote: > > > >>I suspect that the /. effect has gotten easier to carry > >>over time in part because a lot of the clients are higher bandwidth than > >>they were before -- if you have moderate size files being tranfered, lo= ts > >>of long-lived slow connections take up a lot more memory than short-liv= ed > >>ones. > > > > > > Actually, this raises an interesting point -- if > >1. There is a significant amount of network traffic, > >2. There is memory pressure, and > >3. There are several runnable processes, > >it might be a good idea to give scheduling priority to the oldest > >process, in the hope that it will complete and free its memory. > > > >Colin Percival >=20 > dnetc and seti would be the oldest process on some machines. Actually, that'd be init. ;) Marc. > So making=20 > this a mandatory setting would be counter productive. >=20 > --=20 > Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Marc Ramirez Blue Circle Software Corporation 513-688-1070 (main) 513-382-1270 (direct) http://www.bluecirclesoft.com http://www.mrami.com (personal) --4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFACiqFg1EgpGw750IRApg1AJ9yoHluL2yqa4YHeMy4nxHmSA+5tQCfQVvb OtR3gnAqcUstZXk0aCm6orw= =J3mP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L--
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