From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <390603EA.7DFC64BA@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:45:30 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch] memory hog protection References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: riel@nl.linux.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 :) -- Jeff Garzik | Nothing cures insomnia like the Building 1024 | realization that it's time to get up. MandrakeSoft, Inc. | -- random fortune -- 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/