From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:29:57 +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: Dave McCracken , "James A. Sutherland" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > Actually, this idea must have been in Unix since about > Bell Labs v5 Unix, possibly before. When people were happy they could sit down in front of a computer. But world changed since then. Users expectations are much higher, they want [among others] latency and high availability. > This is not a new idea, it's an old solution to an old > problem; it even seems to work quite well. Seems for who? AIX? "DON'T TOUCH IT!" I think HP-UX also has and it's not famous because of its stability. Sure, not because of this but maybe sometimes it contributes, maybe its design contributes, maybe its designers contribute. 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/