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SubjectRe: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly
Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> Paul Menage wrote:
>> On 6/22/07, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The problem with input in bytes is that the user will have to ensure
>>> that the input is
>>> a multiple of page size, which implies that she would need to use the
>>> calculator every time.
>>>
>>
>> Having input in bytes seems pretty natural to me. Why not just have
>> the RSS controller round the input to the nearest page (or whatever
>> granularity of memory the controller is able to limit at)?
>
> totally agree with Paul.
>
> Kirill
>
Kirill

If someone assigns a rss_limit of 1 byte and sees a usage of 1 page,
won't that be confusing. But having said that it's not a big
change, it should be easy to accommodate.

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Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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