Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:07:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>, bright@rush.net, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907131505560.86113-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199907131859.LAA79981@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :But I have a valid point: can we do something better than posting a SIGKILL > :to the largest process? > : > : Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ > : green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ > > We could have the ability to mark processes as being more or less > preferable as kill candidates. I'm not sure I really care anymore, > though... there is so much disk space available now that it is fairly > difficult to run the system out of swap space. I don't think I've > run any of my personal systems out of swap space for at least a year > now! Usually the biggest process is the one responsible (note: MFS > processes do not count, and they are immune from being killed). We need some kind of hysteresis... a process took up all my swap left, got killed, then my X server got killed too. I'd like something that says "I don't want process X killed unless it has run away with over Y of memory." But I'd also like to see FreeBSD not kill two processes to prevent a deadlock. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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