From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: VM fixes [4/4]
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:44:52 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501021143580.23180@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050102155107.GB5164@dualathlon.random>
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> The other part of Thomas's change is this one:
> Thomas's changes worked better than previous code so far, he can clearly
> identify forkbombs or services spread across multiple processes.
> optimal. What he does above by killing the childs first is a lot more
> conservative and I'm fine with it as well.
I like it a lot, especially when thinking about overloaded
web servers and other loads that are common but not malicious.
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-02 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-24 17:41 VM fixes [4/4] Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-24 18:01 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-24 18:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-24 20:55 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-24 21:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-24 23:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-24 23:55 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-24 23:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-25 2:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-25 3:24 ` VM fixes [PF_MEMDIE to TIF_MEMDIE] [5/4] Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-25 14:53 ` VM fixes [->used_math to PF_USED_MATH] [6/4] Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-27 7:03 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-01-02 15:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-08 17:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-25 0:06 ` VM fixes [4/4] Mitchell Blank Jr
2004-12-25 2:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-24 23:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-27 13:38 ` Rik van Riel
2004-12-28 9:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-02 15:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-02 16:44 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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