From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl (Arjan van de Ven)
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] memory hog protection
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:30:30 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m12jdKA-000OVtC@amadeus.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004232255530.1852-100000@duckman.conectiva> <3903D353.D98969B7@mandrakesoft.com>
In article <3903D353.D98969B7@mandrakesoft.com> you wrote:
>> the patch below changes the mm->swap_cnt assignment to put
>> memory hogs at a disadvantage to programs with a smaller
> There are many classes of problems where preserving interactivity at the
> expense of a resource hog is a bad not good idea. Think of obscure
> situations like database servers for example :)
Is it really that bad to have a sysctl (or other /proc thingy) named
"boostinteractive" or whatever, and means that the owner of the machine
wants to favor interactive processes over memory/cpu hogs.
This can be used for
1) Rick's MM pressure stuff
2) The scheduler
3) The OOM selection algorithm
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-24 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-24 2:38 Rik van Riel
2000-04-24 4:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-04-24 7:30 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2000-04-24 11:01 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-25 20:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-04-26 10:53 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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