cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Thu Mar 3 06:15:14 GMT 2005


On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, David Schultz wrote:

> Of course, there's another possible solution which is to remove
> the swapping code entirely.  That would certainly simplify things,
> but it would also make FreeBSD degrade less gracefully under load.

I don't think that would be a big loss; by the time you're doing a lot of 
process swapping, you're pretty screwed.

A process has to be swapped back in in order for it to be killed, right? 
We might be better off without swapping, in that case.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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