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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:48:25 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: suspend processes at load (was Re: a simple OOM ...) 
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> > That is, when the load gets too high, we temporarily suspend
> > processes to bring the load down to more acceptable levels.
> 
> Please don't. Or at least make it optional and not the default or user
> controllable. Trashing is good.

This sounds like you have no idea what thrashing is.

Rik
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