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From: klink@clouddancer.com (Colonel)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WANTED: Re: VM lockup with 2.4.8 / 2.4.8pre8
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:35:21 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010815193521.4DDE8783F5@mail.clouddancer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9lc0ek$l5k$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10108131229270.27903-100000@press-gopher.uchicago.edu>    <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108131451470.6118-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> <20010814220545.D31070@pasky.ji.cz> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108131451470.6118-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>;    from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 02:55:42PM -0300 <9lc0ek$l5k$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>

In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote:
>
>Why we are giving so big importance to root processes? Yes, they are
>important, but they are even more likely to flood our memory, because
>limits don't apply to them. I propose to just divide their badness
>by 2, not by 4.

Gee, lets punish everybody in case of one bad app...


>I also propose to half badness of processes with pid < 1000 - those
>processes are usually also important, because they are called during
>boot-time and they usually handle important system affairs.


The belief that boot started processes remain under a pid < 1000 is
flawed.  Simple example: the postfix mail server.


-- 
Windows 2001: "I'm sorry Dave ...  I'm afraid I can't do that."


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-15 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <9lc0ek$l5k$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-08-13 17:47 ` Roy C. Bixler
2001-08-13 17:55   ` WANTED: " Rik van Riel
2001-08-14 19:04     ` Jon 'tex' Boone
2001-08-14 19:32       ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-14 20:05     ` Petr Baudis
2001-08-14 20:27       ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-15 19:35       ` Colonel [this message]
2001-08-15 20:14         ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-08-15 20:51         ` David Ford
2001-08-16  4:27         ` Colonel
2001-08-16  9:27           ` Marco Colombo
2001-08-14 19:13   ` Roy C. Bixler

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