Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:05:37 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: KPATCH] Reserve VM for root (was: Re: Looking for better VM) |
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 01:51:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > If you think fork() kills the box then ulimit the maximum number > > > of user processes (ulimit -u). This is a different issue and a > > > bad design in the scheduler (see e.g. Tru64 for a better one). > > > > My fair scheduler catches this one just fine. It hasn't > > been integrated in the kernel yet, but both VA Linux and > > Conectiva use it in their kernel RPM. > > BTW: do you have a fairsched patch for 2.4?
I haven't updated it yet to the latest kernels yet...
[but I, or someone else, should ;)]
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/
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