Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 01:07:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Ivan <Ivan.Djelic@prism.uvsq.fr>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909230106310.312-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <37E9AB80.C67E1B1D@newsguy.com>
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On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > How about this - add an 'importance' resource. The lower the number, > > the more likely the process will be killed if the system runs out of > > resources. We would also make fork automatically decrement the number > > by one in the child. > > Well, that's one thing people have asked for. It can be useful, and > doesn't sound particularly hard to code, nor too intrusive or > resource-hog. Would make some people, on both camps. > > Alas, some people will never let go until we have a no overcommit > switch, and *then* they'll start asking for us to go to the lengths > Solaris does to reduce the disadvantages. Ohh, don't bring that up, mi has been waiting for that ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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