Re: suspend processes at load (was Re: a simple OOM ...)

[Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@f-secure.com>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Actually, this idea must have been in Unix since about
> Bell Labs v5 Unix, possibly before.

When people were happy they could sit down in front of a computer. But
world changed since then. Users expectations are much higher, they want
[among others] latency and high availability.

> This is not a new idea, it's an old solution to an old
> problem; it even seems to work quite well.

Seems for who? AIX? "DON'T TOUCH IT!" I think HP-UX also has and it's
not famous because of its stability. Sure, not because of this but maybe
sometimes it contributes, maybe its design contributes, maybe its
designers contribute.

	Szaka

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