Messages in this thread |  | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: unfair stress on non memory allocating apps while swapout (in 2.4) | Date | Sun, 22 Oct 2000 03:14:49 +0200 |
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In article <20001021234458.A20246@lina.inka.de> 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 programs which do not allocate memory be delayed while one program is eating up all memory. This clearly means they are not delayed in the malloc call but simply the kernel will not schedule them while he is bussy to page out processes.
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