From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:23:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: Szabolcs Szakacsits Subject: Re: suspend processes at load (was Re: a simple OOM ...) 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: Rik van Riel Cc: "James A. Sutherland" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > "Painfully slow" when you are thrashing == "root cannot login > because his login times out every time he tries to login". > THIS is why we need process suspension in the kernel. man 5 login.defs vi /etc/security/limits.conf > Also think about the problem a bit more. If the "painfully slow > progress" is getting less work done than the amount of new work > that's incoming (think of eg. a mailserver), then the system has > NO WAY to ever recover ... at least, not without the system > administrator walking by after the weekend. This is also quite typical for inexperienced web admins and guess what? They learn to use resource limits and config settings. Szaka -- 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/