Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:02:03 -0500 (EST) | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | | Subject | Re: 2.5.44-mm6 |
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > 1) 2.4 does have the failure modes you talk about ;) > > Shock :) How does one trigger them? > > > > 2) I have most of an explicit load control algorithm ready, > > against an early 2.4 kernel, but porting it should be very > > little work > > > > Just let me know if you're interested in my load control mechanism > > and I'll send it to you. > > It would be interesting if you could send out what you have. > > It would also be interesting to know if we really care? The > machine is already running 10x slower than it would be if it > had enough memory; perhaps it is just not a region of operation > for which we're interested in optimising. (Just being argumentitive > here ;))
I think there is a need for keeping an overloaded machine in some way usable, not because anyone is really running it that way, but because the sysadmin needs a way to determine why a correctly sized machine is suddenly seeing a high load.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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