From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:28:21 -0700 Message-Id: <200004261528.IAA13982@pizda.ninka.net> From: "David S. Miller" In-reply-to: (message from Andi Kleen on 26 Apr 2000 18:31:50 +0200) Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.3.99-pre6-3+ VM rebalancing References: <200004261433.HAA13894@pizda.ninka.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: ak@suse.de Cc: riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: But is that still fair ? A memory hog could rapidly allocate and dirty pages, killing the small innocent daemon which just needs to get some work done. If the daemon is actually doing anything, he'll reference his pages which will cause us to not liberate them. If he's not doing anything, why should we keep his pages around? Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/