Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 01:29:54 -0800 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.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: <20030314012954.A42430@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030313154226.X682@odysseus.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:46:22PM -0600 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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On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:46:22PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > I believe Juli is working on a > > way to designate certain processes as unkillable by the pageout > > daemon, so people running postgres on a busy system, for instance, > > are not unpleasantly surprised when the pageout daemon runs out of > > breathing room and decides that postmaster is the biggest process. > > That could be useful, although I think it may be more trouble that it's > worth. (Why give shell accounts on the postgres machine?) Having had as my workstation a FreeBSD machine with X, netscape, and too little RAM, I think it would be very useful for some situations. You have no idea how annoying it is when netscape eats all your memory and FreeBSD decide that the solution to this is to kill *X*. > I wonder if we should have a regression test which attempts to jam up the > machine with lots of processes / ram usage. :) It would be a very Good Thing :-) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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