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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>
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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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