Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:28:00 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.44-mm6 |
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Just let me know if you're interested in my load control mechanism > > > and I'll send it to you. > > It would also be interesting to know if we really care? > > 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.
Indeed, it's a stability thing, not a performance thing.
It's Not Good(tm) to have a system completely crap out because of a load spike. Instead it should survive the load spike and go on with life.
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Current spamtrap: <a href=mailto:"october@surriel.com">october@surriel.com</a>
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