Re: static scheduling - SCHED_IDLE?

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 22:13:08 EST


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> > 2. load control, when the VM starts thrashing we can just
> > suspend a few processes to make sure the system as a
> > whole won't thrash to death
>
> Surely it would be easier, and more appropriate, to make the
> processes sleep when they next page fault.

This should work ...

Rik

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