Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:57:32 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@telehouse.ch> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> Cc: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Green/Yellow/Red state for the VM system. Message-ID: <3A0896EC.A2CA3106@telehouse.ch> References: <28041.973635706@critter> <3A088D1B.96157C0D@telehouse.ch> <20001107153343.A24788@elvis.mu.org> <3A0892BB.4F399708@telehouse.ch> <20001107184940.X37870@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:39:39AM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > OK, but would the right solution be to simply make more memory > > available? I doubt it. A bug is a bug and needs to be fixed not > > to be masked. Eventually it would fail just in a different place. > > When you are being attacked / loosing resources to some big problem, > any memory you make available is going to be eaten by the bug / attack. > > The trick is to change your behavior, not just use a bigger tool. If you had read my previous email further, instead of just stopping after the first sentence that apparently offended you, you would have seen that I come to the same conclusion with the twist that the change of behaviour should happen on a per sub-system basis, not on a global kernel-KVM basis. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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