Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:01:23 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Message-ID: <378D5D13.EA7AD97D@newsguy.com> References: <199907132346.TAA13780@bikini.ihack.net> <v04011702b3b275648c0f@[128.113.24.47]> <378D2682.DA0D38A0@bellatlantic.net>
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Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > It would be nice to have a way to indicate that, a la SIGDANGER. > > Another option may be to add something like "importance classes". > Suppose we assign an one-byte "importance level" to each process. > When we get out of swap we start killing processes with the lowest > importance level. This seems to be both easy to implement and > a rather robust solution. This is as easy to do as setting limits, which has the added benefit of not having any process killed. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Would you like to go out with me?" "I'd love to." "Oh, well, n... err... would you?... ahh... huh... what do I do next?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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