> If the reason for the machine going bad is because when the running
> process eventually (or even before) gets all it memory to actually run,
> it is rescheduled, I see a simple solution.
>
> Stop rescheduling too often when memory is low. Rescheduling is very
> memory demanding (in terms of swapping and stuff), and that is not
> helping the situation.
>
> Any thought on this, or am I compleatly mistaken?
We don't know which additional memory the big task will
need until we let it run a bit and do its page fault.
Rik
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