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Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:42:23 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_map.c vm_map.h vm_pageout.c
Message-ID:  <20030313224223.GP4145@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030313154226.X682@odysseus.silby.com>
References:  <200303122313.h2CNDHMU046431@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030312175458.J32334@odysseus.silby.com> <20030313005115.GA11794@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030313154226.X682@odysseus.silby.com>

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* Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> [030313 13:49] wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, David Schultz wrote:
> 
> > With KSE, all of the threads in the process are made runnable.  I
> > assume this is to get them to all exit the kernel as fast as
> > possible so the process can die, although there may be a better
> > solution.  Still, it shouldn't be a big problem.
> 
> Well, back when I was running tests, I found that if you had 1000s of
> processes running, the kill signal could take so long to get delivered and
> acted upon that the same process might have to be killed by the pageout
> daemon 3-4 times before it actually died.

Shooting from the hip here, but why not just forcefully toss away the
process's vmspace or a subset of it?  Basically have the pageout
deamon deallocate the "to be killed" process's address space?

-Alfred

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