From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:02:03 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: 2.5.44-mm6 In-Reply-To: <3DBD7176.BAC2BCD3@digeo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Rik van Riel , lkml , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > 1) 2.4 does have the failure modes you talk about ;) > > Shock :) How does one trigger them? > > > > 2) I have most of an explicit load control algorithm ready, > > against an early 2.4 kernel, but porting it should be very > > little work > > > > Just let me know if you're interested in my load control mechanism > > and I'll send it to you. > > It would be interesting if you could send out what you have. > > It would also be interesting to know if we really care? The > machine is already running 10x slower than it would be if it > had enough memory; perhaps it is just not a region of operation > for which we're interested in optimising. (Just being argumentitive > here ;)) I think there is a need for keeping an overloaded machine in some way usable, not because anyone is really running it that way, but because the sysadmin needs a way to determine why a correctly sized machine is suddenly seeing a high load. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. -- 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-mm.org/