On 11/1/06, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Essentially, if my understanding is correct, zone reclaim has tasks > that are asking for memory first do some work towards keeping enough > memory free, such as doing some work reclaiming slab memory and pushing > swap and pushing dirty buffers to disk.
True, it would help with keeping the machine in an alive state. But when one task is allocating memory, it's still going to be pushing out pages with random owners, rather than pushing out its own pages when it hits it memory limit. That can negatively affect the performance of other tasks, which is what we're trying to prevent. You can't just say that the biggest user should get penalised. You might want to use 75% of a machine for an important production server, and have the remaining 25% available for random batch jobs - they shouldn't be able to impact the production server. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech
