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    1 `stress' TODO -- development roadmap
    2 Copyright (C) 2005 Amos Waterland.
    3 See the end for copying conditions.
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    5 Please send `stress' bug reports, questions, and suggestions to
    6 <apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu>.
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   10  * Define VERSION, among other things.
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   12 Use a concept instead of an option
   13 
   14  * Instead of explicit options like --vm-bytes, get rid of all --vm
   15    options but one: --vm-pattern=webserver,database,raytracer etc.
   16 
   17 Barrier instead of backoff
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   19  * If you fork a sufficiently high number of children, the system will
   20    become so overloaded that new children do not ever get a chance to
   21    even start.  It is arguable whether stress should bother to deal
   22    with this at all, but at present it does so by giving each child a
   23    backoff timer.  Each child immediately goes to sleep upon entry,
   24    and wakes up only after the backoff factor has expired.  This
   25    allows the kernel to fork an absurd number of processes.  If we
   26    decide this is a behavior we wish to preserve, we should move to a
   27    model where each child just waits for a signal from the parent,
   28    which it can send to its whole process group effeciently once it
   29    finishes forking all the requested children.  This would allow us
   30    to get rid of the `--backoff' option and reduce the associated code
   31    complexity.
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