Re: 2.5.44-mm6

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > Just let me know if you're interested in my load control mechanism
> > > and I'll send it to you.
> > It would also be interesting to know if we really care?
>
> I think there is a need for keeping an overloaded machine in some way
> usable, not because anyone is really running it that way, but because
> the sysadmin needs a way to determine why a correctly sized machine is
> suddenly seeing a high load.

Indeed, it's a stability thing, not a performance thing.

It's Not Good(tm) to have a system completely crap out because
of a load spike. Instead it should survive the load spike and
go on with life.

Rik
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