Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:06:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907131203350.9543-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199907131859.LAA79981@apollo.backplane.com>
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> > 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
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