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

[James A. Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:29:57 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote:

>
>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, 

Hrm. How do you reconcile that with increasing use of Windows? :-)

>they want
>[among others] latency 

They want latency?! Just put them on a BT Internet connection then...

>and high availability.

Yes - which requires strangling rogue processes before they can take
the box out...

>> 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.

Compared to other "desktop" OSs, Linux is excellent - compared to many
"commercial" Unixes, it still has weak points. It's rapidly improving,
but don't go thinking there is nothing to be learned from other, far
more mature, platforms...


James.
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