Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:55:30 -0600 | From | "Ram Gupta" <> | Subject | Re: RSS Limit implementation issue |
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On 2/9/06, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Iau, 2006-02-09 at 15:10 -0600, Ram Gupta wrote: > > I am working to implement enforcing RSS limits of a process. I am > > planning to make a check for rss limit when setting up pte. If the > > limit is crossed I see couple of different ways of handling . > > > > 1. Kill the process . In this case there is no swapping problem. > > Not good as the process isn't responsible for the RSS size so it would > be rather random. >
I doubt I am missing some point here. I dont understand why the process isn't responsible for RSS size. This limit is process specific & the count of rss increases when the process maps some page in its page table.
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