On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:20:00AM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
> There didn't seem to be much interest in my earlier post about kernel
> behavior when swap thrashing.
> So my question is, are we not concerned about system behavior when one
> process uses so much memory that it grinds everything else to a halt?
> It appears that a thrashing process is being given more preferential
> treatment than it should.
Design characteristic of global page replacement algorithms. It's not
getting touched for 2.5/2.6
-- wli
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