On Dec 15, 2005, at 07:45, Con Kolivas wrote:
I have some basic process-that-called the memory allocator link in
the -ck tree already which alters how aggressively memory is
reclaimed according to priority. It does not affect out of memory
management but that could be added to said algorithm; however I
don't see much point at the moment since oom is still an uncommon
condition but regular memory allocation is routine.
My thought would be to generalize the two special cases of writeback
of dirty pages or dropping of clean pages under memory pressure and
OOM to be the same general case. When you are trying to free up
pages, it may be permissible to drop dirty mbox pages and kill the
postfix process writing them in order to satisfy allocations for the
mission-critical database server. (Or maybe it's the other way
around). If a large chunk of the allocated pages have priorities and
lossless/lossy free functions, then the kernel can be much more
flexible and configurable about what to do when running low on RAM.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
--
I lost interest in "blade servers" when I found they didn't throw
knives at people who weren't supposed to be in your machine room.
-- Anthony de Boer
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