WANTED: Re: VM lockup with 2.4.8 / 2.4.8pre8
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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...
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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.
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Windows 2001: "I'm sorry Dave ... I'm afraid I can't do that."
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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.
agreed, but FWIW my postfix master daemon is pid 434
isn't this what Priority and Nice values are for, though?
-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
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