From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:28:00 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: 2.5.44-mm6 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: Bill Davidsen Cc: Andrew Morton , lkml , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Just let me know if you're interested in my load control mechanism > > > and I'll send it to you. > > It would also be interesting to know if we really care? > > 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. Indeed, it's a stability thing, not a performance thing. It's Not Good(tm) to have a system completely crap out because of a load spike. Instead it should survive the load spike and go on with life. Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Current spamtrap: october@surriel.com -- 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/