Prioritizing processes

2011-09-23 Thread Ole Tange
At my work we have programs that baloon in memory usage after running for some time. For this excersize I will assume a simplified setup: * the program baloon takes upto 60 minutes to run * the program baloon increases memory usage by 1 GB/minute * the hardware has 60 GB usable RAM and enough swa

Re: Prioritizing processes

2011-09-23 Thread Rhys Ulerich
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Ole Tange wrote: > At my work we have programs that baloon in memory usage after running > for some time... > > ... > > I am thinking of this algorithm: > > ... > > Can you see situations where this will not work? Offhand nothing jumps out as wrong but I've not st