Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

[Marc Ramirez]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:45:18PM -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote:
> >At 23:59 17/01/2004, Robert Watson wrote:
> >
> >>I suspect that the /. effect has gotten easier to carry
> >>over time in part because a lot of the clients are higher bandwidth than
> >>they were before -- if you have moderate size files being tranfered, lots
> >>of long-lived slow connections take up a lot more memory than short-lived
> >>ones.
> >
> >
> >  Actually, this raises an interesting point -- if
> >1. There is a significant amount of network traffic,
> >2. There is memory pressure, and
> >3. There are several runnable processes,
> >it might be a good idea to give scheduling priority to the oldest
> >process, in the hope that it will complete and free its memory.
> >
> >Colin Percival
> 
> dnetc and seti would be the oldest process on some machines.

Actually, that'd be init. ;)

Marc.

> So making 
> this a mandatory setting would be counter productive.
> 
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