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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2003 01:09:25 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_map.c vm_map.h vm_pageout.c
Message-ID:  <20030314010729.D988@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030314064614.GA20500@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
References:  <200303122313.h2CNDHMU046431@repoman.freebsd.org>    <20030312175458.J32334@odysseus.silby.com>    <20030313005115.GA11794@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030313154226.X682@odysseus.silby.com>    <20030313224223.GP4145@elvis.mu.org> <20030314064614.GA20500@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, David Schultz wrote:

> Thus spake Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>:
> > Shooting from the hip here, but why not just forcefully toss away the
> > process's vmspace or a subset of it?  Basically have the pageout
> > deamon deallocate the "to be killed" process's address space?
>
> Sharing would just make that a pain.  You're not even guaranteed
> to get anything out of cannibalizing the address space if it's
> shared.  I think I'll wait until someone presents conclusive
> evidence that the requirement that processes be swapped in before
> they are killed is really an issue in practice.

David, we're just discussing the issue, not requiring you to fix it.  As
such, there's no need to deny the existence of the problem I saw last time
I did OOM testing.

It's OK to admit that there are bugs in the kernel which aren't going to
be fixed immediately, don't get overly excited about it.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack

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