Re: [patch] memory hog protection

Jeff Garzik
2000-04-24T04:53:39Z

Rik van Riel wrote:
> the patch below changes the mm->swap_cnt assignment to put
> memory hogs at a disadvantage to programs with a smaller
> RSS.
[...]

There are many classes of problems where preserving interactivity at the
expense of a resource hog is a bad not good idea. Think of obscure
situations like database servers for example :)

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