Re: unfair stress on non memory allocating apps while swapout (in2.4)

2000-10-23 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I know it does thats why i have run that tool- The question is still, why > > gets my system unusable in the same second my systems starts to page out? > > To follow up on myself: the question was why are

Re: unfair stress on non memory allocating apps while swapout (in2.4)

2000-10-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > with 2.4.0-test10-pre2 (possibly long before that version) i > still can bring the system to a halt while "tail /dev/zero" is > running. I don't complain that you can make a DOS by a trshing > system, cause I can use ulimit to actually avoid that. >