[opensource-dev] [server-beta] Script Memory Management Algorithm

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2010-03-11, at 06:21, Jonathan Irvin wrote:
> Maybe we can handle scripts like Linux handles memory.  Use up an  
> allotted space based on requirements and if it exceeds that (among  
> other scripts using the same shared environment) it can begin to  
> swap in it's own little cluster.

It doesn't matter whether the swapping is done by the OS or by the  
server process, it's the disk I/O bottleneck that swapping causes  
that's the real problem.

And making scripts run on a separate server would just make all  
scripts many times slower and increase server network overhead.