From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 10:34:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from boreas.isi.edu (boreas.isi.edu [128.9.160.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634EA14BD8; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from faber@ISI.EDU) Received: from ISI.EDU (vex-e.isi.edu [128.9.160.240]) by boreas.isi.edu (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA08910; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907141733.KAA08910@boreas.isi.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Matthew Dillon , "Brian F. Feldman" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:17:14 EDT." X-Url: http://www.isi.edu/~faber Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:33:58 -0700 From: Ted Faber Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----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