From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:50:05 +0100 From: Jonathan Morton Subject: Re: suspend processes at load (was Re: a simple OOM ...) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Szabolcs Szakacsits , Rik van Riel Cc: Dave McCracken , "James A. Sutherland" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: >> 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. Well, OK, let's look at a commercial UNIX known for stability at high load: Solaris. How does Solaris handle thrashing? -------------------------------------------------------------- from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton mail: chromi@cyberspace.org (not for attachments) big-mail: chromatix@penguinpowered.com uni-mail: j.d.morton@lancaster.ac.uk The key to knowledge is not to rely on people to teach you it. Get VNC Server for Macintosh from http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/vnc/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS$/E/S dpu(!) s:- a20 C+++ UL++ P L+++ E W+ N- o? K? w--- O-- M++$ V? PS PE- Y+ PGP++ t- 5- X- R !tv b++ DI+++ D G e+ h+ r++ y+(*) -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- -- 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/