Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:44:54 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <nick@garage.freebsd.pl> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> Cc: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>, David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm ... SIGDANGER Message-ID: <20030314204454.GI567@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <3E723A8A.8070100@tcoip.com.br> References: <8023.1047662161@critter.freebsd.dk> <p05200f2bba97e5a92150@[128.113.24.47]> <20030314140414.V4480@odysseus.silby.com> <3E723A8A.8070100@tcoip.com.br>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:24:42PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: +> No, there are a couple of other cases: +> +> 3) Serious Processing(tm) application blithely allocates memory until +> memory allocation fails. At that point it stops allocating memory. +> Another application then uses some previously untouched allocated +> memory, and first application gets killed losing hours of work. +> +> 4) Very Important Server allocates a lot of memory, and gets killed when +> stupid user starts another xterm. +> +> Whatever you may or may not think the correct way of handling these two +> cases is, people *have* complained of our present way of handling them. Why not choose process to kill by their priority? If we got some important processes even without uid=0 we could renice them to value less than 0. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek UNIX Systems Administrator http://garage.freebsd.pl Am I Evil? Yes, I Am. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBPnI/Rj/PhmMH/Mf1AQEXxgP/YhqO3EZj9KiSqu9cSjIMYarYMmdNOam7 MYOHPDjvNgeTWFKglA4afe7qT+QC5q5vi2r1Vtz825zRt5hL2bkekzj16fUzfyRV gAhLC+UGPNfcTdARzzh08+rkT6Om4xE05AMerSBs5zHGIFa2qXP68IbC4F2wmPDR nB1zvikMxHM= =zSo7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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