Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:33:58 -0700 From: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Message-ID: <199907141733.KAA08910@boreas.isi.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:17:14 EDT." <v04011702b3b275648c0f@[128.113.24.47]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Garance A Drosihn wrote: >At 12:20 AM +0900 7/15/99, Daniel C. Sobral 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. > >But that isn't always the best process to have killed off... > For every strategy there's a counterstrategy. Killing the biggest is simple to implement and usually right. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Faber faber@isi.edu USC/ISI Computer Scientist http://www.isi.edu/~faber (310) 822-1511 x190 PGP Key: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN4zKBYb4eisfQ5rpAQFghwQAjKCOA7ubU4NtLrYPO6Nes3pNTtberPSm ssYhHAm3zxV1H/8/elckY+RjYgoFWt9G/SIEgYrVcl62yCpApJmU+0O6PoLcExND CUIPKhUVRdyZsODBF5OrY2i9ITPYm95p/B/EXCtM915UX0iubcNw5iN+9SmCTGk6 ZRW8amrJd/M= =FNnj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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