On Mon, 7 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:
> their hands of the whole affair. A production machine with 128M of ram
> and 1G of swap is going to go down the tubes performance-wise long
> before it runs out of swap. Performance degredation under heavy
> memory loads is a much more interesting and important problem
> then swap exhaustion.
Indeed, this is an interesting area. In the process of
researching how to best implement this for Linux I have
found various reasons why both FreeBSD's and NetBSD's
load control systems cannot work in various realistic
scenarios.
The next step is designing a load control system that
does work (not too hard) and having a reliable way of
detecting when exactly the system is thrashing (next
to impossible?).
I'll make a detailed writeup of exactly why FreeBSD's
load control system cannot work and will post it to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] soon... ;)
regards,
Rik
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