Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-06T15:24:57Z

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:59:22PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Suppose you have 512 MB memory and an equal amount of swap. You start 8
> umls with 64 MB each. With your and Peter's suggestion, the system always
> goes into swap. Whereas if the memory is only allocated on demand it
> probably doesn't.

As I said previously, going into swap is preferable over randomly killing
new tasks under heavy load.

-ben
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