Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:40:14 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Cc: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, gnn@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Protect inetd and cron from being killed under high-pressure swapping Message-ID: <20091118004014.7cf9eb81@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <30DCA579-53AD-49EA-A5A2-5A0796A285C1@gmail.com> References: <3bbf2fe10911160702m3641b65cv15ac2942cbb023fd@mail.gmail.com> <7i8we5xlbm.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <30DCA579-53AD-49EA-A5A2-5A0796A285C1@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:35:34 +0000 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 Nov 2009, at 14:44, gnn@freebsd.org wrote: > > > At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:02:08 +0100, > > Attilio Rao wrote: > >> > >> This simple patch protects inetd and cron from being killed under > >> high-pressure swapping systems: > >> http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/Sandvine/STABLE_8/madvised/madvised.diff > >> > >> This patch has been contributed back from Sandvine Incorporated. > >> Comments, reviews and testing are welcome. > >> > > > > Good idea and the patch looks OK to me. > > Yes, the idea is good, but should we really trust inetd and crond that much ? > Are there other daemons that do this? > contrib/amd/amd/amd.c is the only C-file I can find in the tree. --- Gary Jennejohn
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