amended MiniProposal (Re: Memory overcommitting (was Re: http://www.redhat.com/redhat/))

Adam D. Moss (adam@uunet.pipex.com)
Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:20:51 GMT

Adam D. Moss writes:
> IE the killability of a pid is *basically* something like
> (weighting_constant * vm_pages_of_pid(pid)) /
> (number_of_descendants(pid) - number_of_ancestors(pid))
> and the pid with the highest killability is destroyed.

I meant
(weighting_constant * vm_pages_of_pid(pid)) -
(number_of_descendants(pid) - number_of_ancestors(pid))

which is somewhat different. Sorry for leaving that mistake in. :/

Cheers,
--Adam
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