Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:10:06 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com>, <freebsd-stable@frebsd.org>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pgm to kill 4.3 via vm Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105071508100.18102-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <200105071807.f47I73l62730@earth.backplane.com>
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On Mon, 7 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > :Indeed, this is an interesting area. In the process of > :researching how to best implement this for Linux I have > :found various reasons why both FreeBSD's and NetBSD's > :load control systems cannot work in various realistic > :scenarios. > > A > load control system is something like... oh, the 20 second enforced swap > out that can be triggered when the VM system is under extreme memory > pressure. Yup. Too bad the 20 second enforced swap out isn't enforced... (at least, not by the code in vm_glue.c) I'll write up an email about this later this week... > Load control is a completely different issue from swap > exhaustion. The two are entirely unrelated to each other. I know, that's why I only quoted the part of your message that was about load control and snipped the swap exhaustion part ;) regards, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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