Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway?

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

On Sun, 5 May 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> Another aspect of the (Free)BSD mm we probably want to hijack is the
> process management, i.e., throttling processes selectively (and in some
> kind of fair rotation) to reduce mm thrashing, which is known to improve
> throughput in high load situations.

We absolutely need something like this, but I'm not sure we'll want
the policy FreeBSD has or one of the many others.

As for the mechanism ... I've had that up and running for about a
year now.

regards,

Rik
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