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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: riel@nl.linux.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] memory hog protection
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:45:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <390603EA.7DFC64BA@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004240728070.3464-100000@duckman.conectiva>

Rik van Riel wrote:
> Secondly, about the issue you bring up; suppose a database
> server has 75% of memory and with this patch that would be
> reduced to 70% of memory, that's only a very small difference
> to the database server itself, but a BIG difference to the
> dozen or so smaller processes in the system...

...dozen or so smaller processes which are far less important than the
database server :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-25 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-24  2:38 Rik van Riel
2000-04-24  4:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-04-24  7:30   ` Arjan van de Ven
2000-04-24 11:01   ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-25 20:45     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2000-04-26 10:53       ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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