Re: [PATCH] Patch to Memory Subsystem ... (Needed?)

Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
07 Nov 1998 11:46:30 -0500

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Schau <bsc@fleggaard.dk> writes:
> Hard to say. But with ram being cheap these days, who can't afford a
> spare 1Mb?

I don't want to lose 1 precious MB or RAM just to hypothetically be able to try
to kill a runaway process. Why not ?
1 - 1MB might not be enough
2 - I don't want my machines to stay frozen until I solve the problem manually
and my users don't want that either, so they'll probably just reboot
the thing before I even know what happened.

Furthermore, it's really unclear to me how you'll decide what is allowed to use
that megabyte and when.

Stefan

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