Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:36:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, Ivan <Ivan.Djelic@prism.uvsq.fr>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R Message-ID: <199909270336.UAA76806@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909221227080.312-100000@picnic.mat.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909221024370.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <199909221727.LAA14290@mt.sri.com> <199909221738.KAA16257@apollo.backplane.com> <37E9AB80.C67E1B1D@newsguy.com> <199909231626.JAA27920@apollo.backplane.com> <37EAE9CC.99A4F4AF@newsguy.com>
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:Matthew Dillon wrote:
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:> What it all comes down to is a juxtaposition of what people believe
:> is appropriate verses what people are actually willing to code up.
:> I'm willing to code up my importance mechanism idea. The question is
:> whether it's a good enough idea to throw into the tree.
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:I think it's a good idea. It lets the admin introduce bias in the
:system to protect people/processes who are more likely to use huge
:amount of memory. Alas, taking the swap space into account in
:addition to RSS seems more important to me. But then, I'm happy with
:the way things are right now.
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:Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
I'm going to implement and commit this idea into -CURRENT unless someone
screams. I think it would be an excellent base on top of which future
sohpistication can be added.
-Matt
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