-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:00:52PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > I can't resist. Read the thread that was pointed to on lkml. ROTFLMAO. > > *Real* UNIX addressed these problems long ago. I guess the "Gurus" > suffer from NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. > > Given a "general purpose" system, tunability is a must. UNIX, as > delivered by USL in such examples as Sys V, had tunables that let admins > tune to their needs. A single "swappiness" value is woefully inadequate. > > Among the tunables were how much memory for cache, how much for buffers, > how much for X/Y/Z, high and low water marks for all sorts of memory > related stuff and a very valuable attribute bit for executables called > the "sticky bit". It is not the "sticky bit" as used now. It said lock > this app in memory and never swap it. A variation on that (couldn't keep > original semantics with the size of apps these days) would address some > of the "responsiveness" issues raised by some. Some admin tunables would > address the other issues. > > The "Gurus" need to learn something my father taught me. "A smart man > learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of > others". I'm really smart. :-( And, apparently, so are the "Gurus". To > think they have VM this long and no one has thought to swipe these good > ideas from real UNIX. And they're still argueing about all that as if it > has never been hashed out and addressed before. Well Bill, I'm sure they will be happy to receive a patch from you, with a new VM implementation that actually works (including for SMP machines, and multiple platforms). No ? Well, talk is cheap, isn't it ? - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEhJ6fpdyWzQ5b5ckRAnxDAJ4puKz7CSq1woGrveJT7H8GrOeHHACbBbko JUI12oYs4e+eKqxDyL6gWTY= =k9Jh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----