Re: suspend processes at load (was Re: a simple OOM ...)

[Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>]

>1) a minimal guaranteed working set for small processes, so root
>   can login and large hogs don't penalize good guys
>   (simpler than the working set idea, should work just as good)

This is also worth considering, perhaps as a subset of the working-set
algorithm.

I'm looking at sources, trying to figure out how to implement this kind of
thing...  but is there an easy way to find out what process(es) is/are
using a given page?  I'm talking about the page-replacement policy, of
course, where (current) is no help in this matter.

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