On November 24, 2001 07:43 pm, wind^ntw wrote: > > Our vm shall: > > > > [ ... ] > > - The vm should honour admin-provided priorities in regard to > relative importance between apps. In actual code, something > like the "nice value" for vm behaviour. > > - Be good at detecting streaming IO so that, for example, an mp3 > or video player will not throw out more memory than necesary. > Perhaps give an special admin-provided flag to the programs > which should get honoured as streamers in case auto-detection > fails. > > - Be sure to grant enough memory to streaming IO so that they > can work as intended (read data, process, perhaps write, > all sequentially). Maybe an admin-provided low-watermark > for an initial implementation. Yup to all. And: - Run happily with 90% of memory mlocked -- Daniel -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
