From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 02:05:59 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] a simple OOM killer to save me from Netscape In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Slats Grobnik , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton List-ID: On 14 Apr 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Thrashing when we still have swap free is an entirely different > > matter, which I want to solve with load control code. That is, > > when the load gets too high, we temporarily suspend processes > > to bring the load down to more acceptable levels. > > That's not bad but when it starts coming to policy, the policy > decisions are much more safely made in user space rather than the > kernel. And we just allow the kernel to completely swap-out suspended > processes. You're soooo full of crap. Next we know you'll be proposing to move the scheduler and the pageout code to userspace. Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ -- 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/