On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Terry Lambert brought up an interesting thought from AIX (I think),
> instead of killing a process, it just sleeps the requesting process
> until the situation alleviates itself. Of course this can wind up
> wedging an entire system, it would probably be advisable to then
> revert to killing when more than a threshold of processes go into
> a vmwait sleep.
Seeing as the reason for killing is because you're out of system
resources, and you need to free up some in order to go on, and sleeping
the process isn't going to free up the resources needed, I don't see how
this'll help things.
What kind of resources are there that both cause loss of swap AND are
freed up by sleeping a process?
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