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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:13:08 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: static scheduling - SCHED_IDLE?
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> > 2. load control, when the VM starts thrashing we can just
> >    suspend a few processes to make sure the system as a
> >    whole won't thrash to death
>
> Surely it would be easier, and more appropriate, to make the
> processes sleep when they next page fault.

This should work ...

Rik
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