From: James A. Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
To: happz <happz@dragon.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: suspend processes at load
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:14:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rnhudtssc00ia2r1unis96lfjd2slb8mup@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1809062307.20010319210655@dragon.cz>
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:06:55 +0100, you wrote:
>What about this: give to process way how to tell kernel "it is not
>good to suspend me, because there are process' that depend on me and
>wouldn't be blocked." Syscall or /proc filesystem could be used.
>
>It is not the way how to say which process should be suspended but a
>way how to say which could NOT - usefull for example for X server, may
>be some daemons, aso.
Possibly; TBH, I don't think it's worth it. Remember, "suspending" X
would just stop your mouse moving etc. for (e.g.) 5 seconds; in fact,
that should block most graphical processes, which may well resolve the
thrashing in itself!
James.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-19 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-19 20:06 happz
2001-04-19 20:14 ` James A. Sutherland [this message]
2001-04-20 4:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-04-20 6:35 ` James A. Sutherland
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