From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 15 0:43:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B056154EE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:43:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael.schuster@germany.sun.com) Received: from Germany.Sun.COM ([129.157.168.5]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA01039 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emuc05-home by Germany.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4-sd.fkk205) id JAA24768; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:41:15 +0200 Received: from germany.sun.com by emuc05-home (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4-se.fkk202) id JAA08678; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:41:15 +0200 Message-ID: <378D909D.4AB16D77@germany.sun.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:41:17 +0200 From: Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everyone, I've been following this discussion almost from the beginning, and I have the feeling that we're not _really_ getting very far. There's good arguments for and against overcommit, depending on your point of view and your requirements. What I do see is a not-so-openly voiced consent that the way resource(sp?) shortages are handled in an overcommitting system (SIGKILL) makes some of us rather unhappy. I therefore suggest those of us who would like to see a change in this area pool their efforts and energies to work on a mechanism that handles resource shortage in a more graceful way. cheerio Michael -- Michael.Schuster@germany.sun.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message