Re: Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R

[Chuck Robey]

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > 
> >     How about this - add an 'importance' resource.  The lower the number,
> >     the more likely the process will be killed if the system runs out of
> >     resources.  We would also make fork automatically decrement the number
> >     by one in the child.
> 
> Well, that's one thing people have asked for. It can be useful, and
> doesn't sound particularly hard to code, nor too intrusive or
> resource-hog. Would make some people, on both camps.
> 
> Alas, some people will never let go until we have a no overcommit
> switch, and *then* they'll start asking for us to go to the lengths
> Solaris does to reduce the disadvantages.

Ohh, don't bring that up, mi has been waiting for that ...


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