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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 23:22:43 -0500
To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>,
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From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: Patch to protect process from pageout killing
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At 5:28 PM -0800 3/24/03, David Schultz wrote:
>  Second, it is only marginally useful to go as far as specifying
>priorities and quotas and such on process killability.  Most of
>the time, people can divide the processes on thier system into
>two categories: critical and killable.

While that's probably true "most of the time", I think we'd want to
encourage three categories.  critical, less-critical (killable),
and kill-me-first.  That's what SIGDANGER provides, and in some
situations that third category is very desirable.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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