From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 22:41:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDDD16A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:41:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.bluecirclesoft.com (cpe-024-165-114-048.cinci.rr.com [24.165.114.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5332843D45 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:41:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrami@bluecirclesoft.com) Received: from www.bluecirclesoft.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i0I6fC5l004947; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:41:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mrami@bluecirclesoft.com) Received: (from mrami@localhost) by www.bluecirclesoft.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.8/Submit) id i0I6fBXD004946; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:41:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:41:10 -0500 From: Marc Ramirez To: Jeremy Faulkner Message-ID: <20040118064110.GC49083@www.bluecirclesoft.com> References: <6.0.1.1.1.20040116175159.03f4dd48@imap.sfu.ca> <6.0.1.1.1.20040118000417.02bbee70@imap.sfu.ca> <4009D71E.3020209@gldis.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4009D71E.3020209@gldis.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:41:15 -0000 --4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:45:18PM -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: > >At 23:59 17/01/2004, Robert Watson wrote: > > > >>I suspect that the /. effect has gotten easier to carry > >>over time in part because a lot of the clients are higher bandwidth than > >>they were before -- if you have moderate size files being tranfered, lo= ts > >>of long-lived slow connections take up a lot more memory than short-liv= ed > >>ones. > > > > > > Actually, this raises an interesting point -- if > >1. There is a significant amount of network traffic, > >2. There is memory pressure, and > >3. There are several runnable processes, > >it might be a good idea to give scheduling priority to the oldest > >process, in the hope that it will complete and free its memory. > > > >Colin Percival >=20 > dnetc and seti would be the oldest process on some machines. Actually, that'd be init. ;) Marc. > So making=20 > this a mandatory setting would be counter productive. >=20 > --=20 > Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Marc Ramirez Blue Circle Software Corporation 513-688-1070 (main) 513-382-1270 (direct) http://www.bluecirclesoft.com http://www.mrami.com (personal) --4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFACiqFg1EgpGw750IRApg1AJ9yoHluL2yqa4YHeMy4nxHmSA+5tQCfQVvb OtR3gnAqcUstZXk0aCm6orw= =J3mP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L--