Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:24:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:24:44 -0500 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:21859 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:24:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:24:07 -0500 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Jeff Dike , "H. Peter Anvin" , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages Message-ID: <20020306102407.B22650@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <3C84F449.8090404@zytor.com> <200203051812.NAA03363@ccure.karaya.com> <20020305133054.B432@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from phillips@bonn-fries.net on Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:59:22PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:59:22PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Suppose you have 512 MB memory and an equal amount of swap. You start 8 > umls with 64 MB each. With your and Peter's suggestion, the system always > goes into swap. Whereas if the memory is only allocated on demand it > probably doesn't. As I said previously, going into swap is preferable over randomly killing new tasks under heavy load. -ben -- "A man with a bass just walked in, and he's putting it down on the floor." - 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/