Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Mar 2000 03:35:20 +0000 (GMT) | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.15pre12 |
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
We do that now. Problem is that we don't keep track of pages that aren't allocated yet for other users. Or COW pages, or kernel pages, or ...
I guess we could build a system which does keep track of everything, but I don't think many people will want to use it. Imagine needing 3 MB of swap for every apache child being forked ... (ditto for mysql, sendmail, ...)
size issues aside, proper accounting that allows linux to better predict when to say no is surely better than after the fact killing. It seems cleaner to have code to predict, than to kill. Then we could gracefully say no, rather than ungracefully have to say "die" to quite possibly innocent programmes.
(of course i have no idea how complicated proper accounting and usage prediction could be....)
regards, Rik
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