Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 02:10:11 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Message-ID: <378CC473.279E62E@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907141159400.9606-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > > In which case the program that consumed all memory will be killed. > > The program killed is +NOT+ the one demanding memory, it's the one > > with most of it. > > So why don't we do something else: when we're down to a certain amount of > backing store, start collecting statistics. When we're out, we check the > statistics and find what process has been allocating most of it. We kill > that process. Because it's not only equally arbitrary but also takes more resources to implement? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Would you like to go out with me?" "I'd love to." "Oh, well, n... err... would you?... ahh... huh... what do I do next?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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