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Subject: Re: VM nuisance
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> - How hard/how much time.. to implement resource baselines (or similar 
> concept)

Ben La Haise has been working on that part of things. Its non trivial. I've
been discussing changes with Rik for VM behaviour shifts when thrashing but
not OOM. We have some ideas but this is research