Re: [PATCH] Patch to Memory Subsystem ... (Needed?)

Brian Schau (bsc@fleggaard.dk)
Sun, 08 Nov 1998 14:38:08 +0100

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Schau <bsc@fleggaard.dk> writes:
> > Hard to say. But with ram being cheap these days, who can't afford a
> > spare 1Mb?
>
> I don't want to lose 1 precious MB or RAM just to hypothetically be able to try
> to kill a runaway process. Why not ?
> 1 - 1MB might not be enough
> 2 - I don't want my machines to stay frozen until I solve the problem manually
> and my users don't want that either, so they'll probably just reboot
> the thing before I even know what happened.

Yes. I agree - both points are correct! But it's very painful to
hard-reboot a server when the three finger salute doesn't work .....

And. As stated in an earlier mail of mine, the 1Mb is taken from the
free amount of memory - swap as well as physical ram. So you don't
exactly loose anything - increase your swap and you're set!

>
> Furthermore, it's really unclear to me how you'll decide what is allowed to use
> that megabyte and when.
>
> Stefan
>
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