Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> writes:

  > On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:49:24AM +1030, Ian Dall wrote:
  >> [proposal for high water mark...]
  >> I didn't specify, but my scheme needs to be some mechanism for firing
  >> off a process, or waking up an existing process when swap reaches the
  >> high water mark.

  > Firing up a new process (loading code from disk etc) sounds scary in
  > such a situation (where the system tends to lock up completely at the
  > moment :-)

Well, it would have access to swap above the high water mark so it ought
to run OK unless there is a run away root process which is rampantly
consuming resources in which case you might be hosed anyway.

Ian