Re: [patch] memory hog protection

Jeff Garzik
2000-04-25T20:45:30Z

Rik van Riel wrote:
> Secondly, about the issue you bring up; suppose a database
> server has 75% of memory and with this patch that would be
> reduced to 70% of memory, that's only a very small difference
> to the database server itself, but a BIG difference to the
> dozen or so smaller processes in the system...

...dozen or so smaller processes which are far less important than the
database server :)

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