Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:49:07 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), davidg@Root.COM Cc: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: any interest? Message-ID: <199504031749.LAA02762@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) "Re: any interest?" (Apr 3, 11:22am)
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> Remember that with an overcommit architecture, failure to acquire > needed swap means some process dies, and it's not necessarily > the process that caused you to run out; it's pretty much any > process (that's actually doing something) at random. Not usually. Almost always the process that gets wiped out is the process which is growing constantly or one that was just started. Only in rare cases is it a long running system process you don't want wiped out. Before you go off and start arguing about it, this statement is made from *experience*, so I can say with some assurance that I believe it to be true no matter what you try to say otherwise. Experience never lies. Nate
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