From owner-cvs-all Thu Mar 13 14:42:25 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5718737B401; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:42:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F2543FD7; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:42:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 79B3C2ED3CF; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:42:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:42:23 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mike Silbersack Cc: David Schultz , 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> References: <200303122313.h2CNDHMU046431@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030312175458.J32334@odysseus.silby.com> <20030313005115.GA11794@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030313154226.X682@odysseus.silby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030313154226.X682@odysseus.silby.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mike Silbersack [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message