Re: [ANNOUNCE] Minneapolis Cluster Summit, July 29-30

[Daniel Phillips]

On Monday 12 July 2004 14:21, Steven Dake wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 21:23, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > On Monday 12 July 2004 00:08, Steven Dake wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 12:44, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > Oom conditions are another fact of life for poorly sized systems.
> > > If a cluster is within an OOM condition, it should be removed
> > > from the cluster (because it is in overload, under which unknown
> > > and generally bad behaviors occur).
> >
> > You missed the point.  The memory deadlock I pointed out occurs in
> > _normal operation_.  You have to find a way around it, or kernel
> > cluster services win, plain and simple.
>
> The bottom line is that we just don't know if any such deadlock
> occurs, under normal operations.

I thought I demonstrated that, should I restate?  You need to point out 
the flaw in my argument (about the deadlock, not about philosophy). 
If/when you succeed, I will be pleased.  Until you do succeed, there's 
a deadlock.

Regards,

Daniel
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