Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:17:14 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Message-ID: <v04011702b3b275648c0f@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <378CAAD9.AAD7268E@newsguy.com> References: <199907132346.TAA13780@bikini.ihack.net>
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At 12:20 AM +0900 7/15/99, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > In which case the program that consumed all memory will be killed. > The program killed is +NOT+ the one demanding memory, it's the one > with most of it. But that isn't always the best process to have killed off... One of my main freebsd machines is mainly here to run one process, which is a pretty good-sized process (>40meg). If I did get into a memory-shortage problem, I do *not* want that process killed, I'd want some other processes killed. It would be nice to have a way to indicate that, a la SIGDANGER. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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