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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, David Schultz wrote:

> Another thing that swapping does, though, is prevent some
> processes from running for a while when the system is under load,
> thereby reducing contention for resources and allowing the other
> processes to get things done.  If people decide to go this way, it
> might be a good idea to keep the second feature.  It costs very
> little in terms of complexity because no actual swapping is done.
> But who knows?  Maybe nobody cares about this, either...

That'd probably help a lot more than our current system of hoping that the 
swapping rate limits things does.  I bet David could code it up in a 
matter of minutes. :)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack