Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: why swap at all? | From | FabF <> | Date | Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:53:32 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 21:02, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:36:23 +0200, FabF said: > > > I guess we have a design problem right here.We could add per-process > > swappiness attribute.That swap thread becomes boring coz we're looking > > globally what's going wrong locally. > > Hmm.. do we need to worry about the same DoS issues we need to worry about with > mlock and friends? I know I can trust myself to not do stupid things to said > flags on my laptop (well... not twice anyhow ;). On the other hand, I have > systems with clueless users, and the even more dangerous half-clued users. And > then I have a bunch of machines in our security lab, where Bad Things happen > all the time...
I was thinking about some rule e.g. any process using libX* isn't swapped to disk until OOM ...
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