On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

Rik van Riel wrote:

quoted

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

It would also be interesting to know if we really care?

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.

Indeed, it's a stability thing, not a performance thing.

It's Not Good(tm) to have a system completely crap out because
of a load spike. Instead it should survive the load spike and
go on with life.

Rik
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