On 06/21/2010 06:23 PM, Roland McGrath wrote: > A core dump is just an instance of a process suddenly reading lots of its > address space and doing lots of filesystem writes, producing the kinds of > thrashing that any such instance might entail. It is, although with one possibly important difference: the process has had an involuntary state transition, which may mean that its priority settings that it had as a "live" process are no longer applicable. It would certainly seem appropriate to give the administrator the option of altering the priority parameters of coredumping processes. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
