In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote:
>
>Why we are giving so big importance to root processes? Yes, they are
>important, but they are even more likely to flood our memory, because
>limits don't apply to them. I propose to just divide their badness
>by 2, not by 4.
Gee, lets punish everybody in case of one bad app...
>I also propose to half badness of processes with pid < 1000 - those
>processes are usually also important, because they are called during
>boot-time and they usually handle important system affairs.
The belief that boot started processes remain under a pid < 1000 is
flawed. Simple example: the postfix mail server.
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