From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 22 21:26:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E0814F1C for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 21:26:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id NAA06629; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:25:57 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37E9AB80.C67E1B1D@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:24:32 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Nate Williams , Alfred Perlstein , Chuck Robey , Ivan , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R References: <199909221727.LAA14290@mt.sri.com> <199909221738.KAA16257@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > > How about this - add an 'importance' resource. The lower the number, > the more likely the process will be killed if the system runs out of > resources. We would also make fork automatically decrement the number > by one in the child. Well, that's one thing people have asked for. It can be useful, and doesn't sound particularly hard to code, nor too intrusive or resource-hog. Would make some people, on both camps. Alas, some people will never let go until we have a no overcommit switch, and *then* they'll start asking for us to go to the lengths Solaris does to reduce the disadvantages. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Thus, over the years my wife and I have physically diverged. While I have zoomed toward a crusty middle-age, she has instead clung doggedly to the sweet bloom of youth. Naturally I think this unfair. Yet, if it was the other way around, I confess I wouldn't be happy either." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message