From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 7 15:57:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4AF637B4C5 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:57:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 85400 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2000 23:56:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO telehouse.ch) ([62.48.0.53]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Nov 2000 23:56:01 -0000 Message-ID: <3A0896EC.A2CA3106@telehouse.ch> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:57:32 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Paul Saab , Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Green/Yellow/Red state for the VM system. References: <28041.973635706@critter> <3A088D1B.96157C0D@telehouse.ch> <20001107153343.A24788@elvis.mu.org> <3A0892BB.4F399708@telehouse.ch> <20001107184940.X37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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