From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James A. Sutherland Subject: Re: suspend processes at load (was Re: a simple OOM ...) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:21:56 +0100 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Szabolcs Szakacsits Cc: Rik van Riel , Dave McCracken , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:29:57 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote: > >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, Hrm. How do you reconcile that with increasing use of Windows? :-) >they want >[among others] latency They want latency?! Just put them on a BT Internet connection then... >and high availability. Yes - which requires strangling rogue processes before they can take the box out... >> 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. Compared to other "desktop" OSs, Linux is excellent - compared to many "commercial" Unixes, it still has weak points. It's rapidly improving, but don't go thinking there is nothing to be learned from other, far more mature, platforms... James. -- 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/