Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Nov 2005 23:36:28 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] swapin rlimit |
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > Similarly, that SGI patch which was rejected 6-12 months ago to kill > > off processes once they started swapping. We thought that it could be > > done from userspace, but we need a way for userspace to detect when a > > task is being swapped on a per-task basis. > > wouldnt the clean solution here be a "swap ulimit"?
Well it's _a_ solution, but it's terribly specific.
How hard is it to read /proc/<pid>/nr_swapped_in_pages and if that's non-zero, kill <pid>? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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