From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 13 12: 8:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7FA814FD4 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:08:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05826; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:06:33 -0700 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:06:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) In-Reply-To: <199907131859.LAA79981@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > We could have the ability to mark processes as being more or less > preferable as kill candidates. I'm not sure I really care anymore, > though... there is so much disk space available now that it is fairly > difficult to run the system out of swap space. I don't think I've > run any of my personal systems out of swap space for at least a year I do this regularly and swap areas are difficult to configure sometimes. It would be desirable to have a growable swap vnode in ffs that you can set up in advance, or have a network nfs swap server for use in emergencies. This is a much better policy than killing processes, which is really microsoft style solution. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message