On November 23, 2001 07:52 pm, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Our vm shall: > > - Run happily with 90% of memory mlocked And... - put memory or disk resources on allotment only when resources limits are reached. - share resources fairly between tasks (did I already say that?) - not swap when it doesn't have to (define have to) And ambitiously, under the heading of degrading gracefully: - try to delay the onset of thrashing by sheduling tasks with increasing coarse granularity so that each running task is able to obtain a reasonable working set of process memory and file cache. -- 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/