On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

Rik van Riel wrote:

quoted

1) 2.4 does have the failure modes you talk about ;)

Shock :)  How does one trigger them?

quoted

2) I have most of an explicit load control algorithm ready,
   against an early 2.4 kernel, but porting it should be very
   little work

Just let me know if you're interested in my load control mechanism
and I'll send it to you.

It would be interesting if you could send out what you have.

It would also be interesting to know if we really care?  The
machine is already running 10x slower than it would be if it
had enough memory; perhaps it is just not a region of operation
for which we're interested in optimising.  (Just being argumentitive
here ;))

I think there is a need for keeping an overloaded machine in some way
usable, not because anyone is really running it that way, but because the
sysadmin needs a way to determine why a correctly sized machine is
suddenly seeing a high load.

-- 
bill davidsen [off-list ref]
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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