Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 23:22:43 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to protect process from pageout killing Message-ID: <p05200f42baa5897e8dd8@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030325012844.GB4406@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <200303240823.48262.wes@softweyr.com> <7019.1048523782@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030324213519.GA63147@dan.emsphone.com> <20030325012844.GB4406@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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At 5:28 PM -0800 3/24/03, David Schultz wrote: > Second, it is only marginally useful to go as far as specifying >priorities and quotas and such on process killability. Most of >the time, people can divide the processes on thier system into >two categories: critical and killable. While that's probably true "most of the time", I think we'd want to encourage three categories. critical, less-critical (killable), and kill-me-first. That's what SIGDANGER provides, and in some situations that third category is very desirable. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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