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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] OOM handling
    Rik van Riel wrote:
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    > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote:
    >
    > > Ah... and of course I think this patch can already go directly
    > > into the official kernel. The quality of code should permit
    > > it. I would esp. request Rik van Riel to have a closer look
    > > at it...
    >
    > - the algorithms are just as much black magic as the old ones
    > - it hasn't been tested in any other workload than your Oracle
    > server (at least, not that I've heard of)

    No that's not true! Read the code please. The result is a simple
    wighted sum without artificial unit.

    > - the comments are just too rude ;)
    > (though fun)

    That's only a matter for the "smooth" anglosaxons. Different
    cultures have different measures on this. I don't feel the need
    to adjust myself to the american cultural obstructivity.
    I esp. to the habit of don't saying clearly what one means if one
    want's to criticize something.

    > - the AGE_FACTOR calculation will overflow after the system has
    > an uptime of just _3_ days
    > - your code might be good for server loads, but for normal
    > users it will kill what amounts to a random process ... this
    > is horribly wrong for desktop systems

    No that isn't true. I esp. the behaviour will be predictable.

    > In short, I like some of your ideas, but I really fail to see why
    > this version of the code would be any better than what we're having
    > now. In fact, since there seem to be about 1000x more desktop boxes
    > than Oracle boxes (probably even more), I'd say that the current
    > algorithm in the kernel is better (since it's right for more systems).

    You misunderstood me compleatly. I wasn't using an running oracle
    db as a test case. I was using the INSTALLATION process.
    Since you apparently don't know about oracle I will tell you:
    It involves a lot of different applications. Infact TONS of:
    Java, shell, compiler, linker, apache, perl and whatanot.

    > Now if you can make something which preserves the heuristics which
    > serve us so well on desktop boxes and add something that makes it
    > also work on your Oracle servers, then I'd be interested.

    I would like to state: The current heuristics DON'T serve us well
    on desktop boxes...

    > Alternatively, I also wouldn't mind a completely new algorithm, as
    > long as it turns out to work well on desktop boxes too. But remember

    I was testing on a NOTEBOOK.

    > that we cannot tell this without first testing the thing on a few
    > dozen (hundreds?) of machines with different workloads...

    That's true for sure.
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