From owner-cvs-src Fri Mar 14 12:44:52 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B52637B401; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:44:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from milla.ask33.net (milla.ask33.net [217.197.166.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A36243FAF; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:44:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick@milla.ask33.net) Received: by milla.ask33.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2C0D33ABB8E; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:44:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:44:54 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Mike Silbersack , Garance A Drosihn , Poul-Henning Kamp , Juli Mallett , Eivind Eklund , David Schultz , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm ... SIGDANGER Message-ID: <20030314204454.GI567@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <8023.1047662161@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030314140414.V4480@odysseus.silby.com> <3E723A8A.8070100@tcoip.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="liqSWPDvh3eyfZ9k" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E723A8A.8070100@tcoip.com.br> X-PGP-Key-URL: http://garage.freebsd.pl/jules.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --liqSWPDvh3eyfZ9k Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:24:42PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: +> No, there are a couple of other cases: +>=20 +> 3) Serious Processing(tm) application blithely allocates memory until=20 +> memory allocation fails. At that point it stops allocating memory.=20 +> Another application then uses some previously untouched allocated=20 +> memory, and first application gets killed losing hours of work. +>=20 +> 4) Very Important Server allocates a lot of memory, and gets killed when= =20 +> stupid user starts another xterm. +>=20 +> Whatever you may or may not think the correct way of handling these two= =20 +> cases is, people *have* complained of our present way of handling them. Why not choose process to kill by their priority? If we got some important processes even without uid=3D0 we could renice them to value less than 0. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek UNIX Systems Administrator http://garage.freebsd.pl Am I Evil? Yes, I Am. --liqSWPDvh3eyfZ9k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBPnI/Rj/PhmMH/Mf1AQEXxgP/YhqO3EZj9KiSqu9cSjIMYarYMmdNOam7 MYOHPDjvNgeTWFKglA4afe7qT+QC5q5vi2r1Vtz825zRt5hL2bkekzj16fUzfyRV gAhLC+UGPNfcTdARzzh08+rkT6Om4xE05AMerSBs5zHGIFa2qXP68IbC4F2wmPDR nB1zvikMxHM= =zSo7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liqSWPDvh3eyfZ9k-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message