On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
>
> > Chuck Robey wrote:
> > >
> > > What kind of resources are there that both cause loss of swap AND are
> > > freed up by sleeping a process?
> >
> > Any of them being consumed by short-lived processes that will run to
> > completion and exit while everyone else is sleeping. This assumes such
> > processes exist, of course.
>
> OK, you wait until some process exits. Ob course, if none do, then your
> entire machine, all processes that ask for memory, wedge, instead of just
> one. You can't even start 'kill -9'.
It wouldn't be all that difficult to track how many processes were
affected or for how long they were affected by this and change to
a kill strategy at that point.
-Alfred
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