Re: 2.5.44-mm6

Bill Davidsen
2002-10-29T12:02:03Z

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Rik van Riel wrote:

> > 1) 2.4 does have the failure modes you talk about ;)
>
> Shock :) How does one trigger them?
>
>
> > 2) I have most of an explicit load control algorithm ready,
> > against an early 2.4 kernel, but porting it should be very
> > little work
> >
> > Just let me know if you're interested in my load control mechanism
> > and I'll send it to you.
>
> It would be interesting if you could send out what you have.
>
> It would also be interesting to know if we really care? The
> machine is already running 10x slower than it would be if it
> had enough memory; perhaps it is just not a region of operation
> for which we're interested in optimising. (Just being argumentitive
> here ;))

I think there is a need for keeping an overloaded machine in some way
usable, not because anyone is really running it that way, but because the
sysadmin needs a way to determine why a correctly sized machine is
suddenly seeing a high load.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.