cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c

[David Xu]

Mike Silbersack wrote:

>
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, David Schultz wrote:
>
>> Of course, there's another possible solution which is to remove
>> the swapping code entirely.  That would certainly simplify things,
>> but it would also make FreeBSD degrade less gracefully under load.
>
>
> I don't think that would be a big loss; by the time you're doing a lot 
> of process swapping, you're pretty screwed.
>
> A process has to be swapped back in in order for it to be killed, 
> right? We might be better off without swapping, in that case.
>
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack
>
>
Agree, some old ideas like swapping quickly rot away by new DRAM technology,
RAM is so cheap, writting code for high speed swapping system? how fast 
will a
machine be when doing heavy swapping ? this is a joke. Also in Embedded 
system,
there is no swappping device, writting code for nothing only wastes time.
We already have abliity to swap out user space memory,  I think that's 
enough in
most cases.

David Xu