Re: [PATCH] a simple OOM killer to save me from Netscape

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On 14 Apr 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> > Thrashing when we still have swap free is an entirely different
> > matter, which I want to solve with load control code. That is,
> > when the load gets too high, we temporarily suspend processes
> > to bring the load down to more acceptable levels.
> 
> That's not bad but when it starts coming to policy, the policy
> decisions are much more safely made in user space rather than the
> kernel.  And we just allow the kernel to completely swap-out suspended
> processes. 

You're soooo full of crap.  Next we know you'll be proposing
to move the scheduler and the pageout code to userspace.

Rik
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