Re: WANTED: Re: VM lockup with 2.4.8 / 2.4.8pre8

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Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:14:30 -0400 (EDT)


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> >I also propose to half badness of processes with pid < 1000 - those
> >processes are usually also important, because they are called during
> >boot-time and they usually handle important system affairs.
>
>
> The belief that boot started processes remain under a pid < 1000 is
> flawed. Simple example: the postfix mail server.
>

agreed, but FWIW my postfix master daemon is pid 434

isn't this what Priority and Nice values are for, though?

-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
thelittleprince@asteroid-b612.org Intergrafix Internet Services

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