From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20000831094802.D16191@saw.sw.com.sg> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:48:02 +0800 From: Andrey Savochkin Subject: Re: Question: memory management and QoS References: <39ACB9E6.4914CB89@tuke.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from "Rik van Riel" on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:53:09PM Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel , Jan Astalos Cc: Yuri Pudgorodsky , Linux MM mailing list List-ID: On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:53:09PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Yes. If you sell resources to 10.000 users, there's usually no > need to have 10.000 times the maximum per-user quota for every > system resource. > > Instead, you sell each user a guaranteed resource with the > possibility to go up to a certain maximum. That way you can give > your users a higher quality of service for much lower pricing, > only with 99.999% guarantee instead of 100%. That's exactly what I was speaking about and what I've been implementing.. Rik, thanks for saying it for me :-) Andrey -- 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/