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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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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.

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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


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