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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:37 +1100
From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Protect inetd and cron from being killed under
 high-pressure swapping
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On 2009-Nov-17 21:35:34 +0000, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:02:08 +0100,
>> Attilio Rao wrote:
>>>=20
>>> 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

>Yes, the idea is good, but should we really trust inetd and crond that muc=
h ?
>Are there other daemons that do this?

As an alternative approach, how about placing a wrapper process around
them which will restart them if they die?  init(8) unofficially provides
this (I've used it in the past) - maybe we should formalise this.

--=20
Peter Jeremy

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