From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: System hang problem.
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:53:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061004095347.GA7462@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061004032656.GB5050@1wt.eu>
On 04-10-2006 05:26, Willy Tarreau wrote:
...
> To better understand how the overcommit works, imagine that you have
> several people who need to put eggs in the same box. By default, they
> are blind and simply put their eggs there. But they don't see if the
> box is overloaded or not. So once the box is full and they push new
> eggs, they start to break other ones (sometimes theirs), but breaking
> eggs also leaves them some room to add new ones.
...
I think this explantion should be the model for linux Documentation!
If every problem could be described so pictorially (preferably with
eggs) learning would be a pleasure.
> I hope it's clear now.
Yes! (except the floor...)
Best regards,
Jarek P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-04 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-04 0:07 System hang problem Manish Neema
2006-10-04 0:49 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-04 3:26 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-04 9:53 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
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2006-10-04 14:24 Al Boldi
2006-10-04 5:44 Manish Neema
2006-10-03 22:07 Manish Neema
2006-10-03 23:35 ` Keith Mannthey
2006-10-04 0:33 ` Alan Cox
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