From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 7 11:10:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br (perninha.conectiva.com.br [200.250.58.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5AF37B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 11:10:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from riel@conectiva.com.br) Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id A72C916B40 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:10:06 -0300 (EST) Received: (qmail 20384 invoked by uid 0); 7 May 2001 18:08:38 -0000 Received: from duckman.distro.conectiva (HELO duckman.conectiva.com.br) (root@10.0.17.2) by burns.conectiva with SMTP; 7 May 2001 18:08:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (riel@localhost) by duckman.conectiva.com.br (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f47IA6P24538; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:10:06 -0300 X-Authentication-Warning: duckman.distro.conectiva: riel owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:10:06 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Matt Dillon Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Kris Kennaway , Dennis Glatting , , Subject: Re: pgm to kill 4.3 via vm In-Reply-To: <200105071807.f47I73l62730@earth.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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