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

> | > > I'm afraid it needs to be more aggressive.
> | >
> | > OK, is the patch below any better ?
> |
> | Yes, this one actually works. When I launched two 150MB tasks, one of
> | them with ulimit -m 1, the limited task yielded its memory to
> | unlimited one. It worked as expected.
>
> I'm not sure what "as expected" means with this small a limit, hopefully
> not "pages its butt off." I am printing a hardcopy of the 2nd patch and
> a bit of the surrounding code, and also compiling a new kernel with the
> patch in place, so I can play a bit in the morning.

Well, it should mean "all the memory from this process should be
reclaimed if it is needed".

> I also wonder if a sanity check is desirable on the minimum size. At
> some point I would think the system would get a lot of overhead trying
> to actually use a single 1k page :-(

I believe it is okay as is. It just gives it very low "memory-priority".

Pavel
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