Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265141AbUFATDV (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:03:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265144AbUFATDU (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:03:20 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:20675 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265141AbUFATCw (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:02:52 -0400 Message-Id: <200406011902.i51J2mZ3016721@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: FabF Cc: Bernd Eckenfels , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why swap at all? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:36:23 +0200." <1086114982.2278.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1086114982.2278.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_482188856P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:02:48 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1263 Lines: 35 --==_Exmh_482188856P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:36:23 +0200, FabF said: > I guess we have a design problem right here.We could add per-process > swappiness attribute.That swap thread becomes boring coz we're looking > globally what's going wrong locally. Hmm.. do we need to worry about the same DoS issues we need to worry about with mlock and friends? I know I can trust myself to not do stupid things to said flags on my laptop (well... not twice anyhow ;). On the other hand, I have systems with clueless users, and the even more dangerous half-clued users. And then I have a bunch of machines in our security lab, where Bad Things happen all the time... --==_Exmh_482188856P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFAvNLYcC3lWbTT17ARAlXfAKChoFPxbTQM/yluLmjQCh1yBrKByQCgv79q H8l4ELjs3ncfKBfoUNmz+LU= =yAow -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_482188856P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/