Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:15:10 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c Message-ID: <20050303001403.W811@odysseus.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20050303060357.GA14180@VARK.MIT.EDU> References: <200503021343.j22DhpQ3075008@repoman.freebsd.org> <200503020915.28512.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <4226446B.7020406@freebsd.org> <20050303033115.GA13174@VARK.MIT.EDU> <42269DB0.6070107@freebsd.org> <20050303052902.GA14011@VARK.MIT.EDU> <4226A46B.2090704@freebsd.org> <20050303060357.GA14180@VARK.MIT.EDU>
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, David Schultz wrote: > Of course, there's another possible solution which is to remove > the swapping code entirely. That would certainly simplify things, > but it would also make FreeBSD degrade less gracefully under load. I don't think that would be a big loss; by the time you're doing a lot of process swapping, you're pretty screwed. A process has to be swapped back in in order for it to be killed, right? We might be better off without swapping, in that case. Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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