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    SubjectRe: the new VMt
    Hi,

    On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:07:44PM -0600, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
    > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:46:35PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
    > > > I'm not too sure of what you have in mind, but if it is
    > > > "process creates vast virtual space to generate many page table
    > > > entries -- using mmap"
    > > > the answer is, virtual address space quotas and mmap should kill
    > > > the process on low mem for page tables.
    > >
    > > Those quotas being exactly what beancounter is
    >
    > But that is a function specific counter, not a counter in the
    > alloc code.

    Beancounter is a framework for user-level accounting. _What_ you
    account is up to the callers. Maybe this has been a miscommunication,
    but beancounter is all about allowing callers to account for stuff
    before allocation, not about having the page allocation functions
    themselves enforce quotas.

    --Stephen
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