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SubjectRe: sched-idle and disk-priorities for 2.6.X


Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
>> A better bet would be a patch that allowed you to set the maximum RSS
>> size for
>> the process so it can basically thrash itself while leaving enough
>> memory for
>> everybody else (and yes, I *know* how this can be self-defeating if the
>> thrashing app then increases the total I/O consumed to be higher than
>> the I/O
>> bandwidth available - the point is that it's probably the high RSS
>> value for
>> his application causing OTHER things to thrash that's the root cause
>> of his
>> performance problem).
>
>
> Or you could use "ulimit -m" to set the RSS, of course.


I don't think that would do anything with 2.6 :P


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