Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 21 Oct 2000 12:22:00 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: unfair stress on non memory allocating apps while swapout (in 2.4) |
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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. > > as the proccess is killed. But still i wonder why the swap out > is such unfair to the rest of the system, especially to a > process which is not actually allocating memory at all.
Look again ... "tail /dev/zero" allocates INFINITE memory.
(trying to read the last 10 lines of /dev/zero, but the device spits out one infinite line ;))
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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