Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 07 Aug 2004 23:09:41 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] RSS ulimit enforcement for 2.6.8 |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >>Rik van Riel wrote: >> >>>The patch below implements RSS ulimit enforcement for 2.6.8-rc3-mm1. > > >>Wish there was something like RSS for cache, so that one process reading >>every inode on the planet, or doing an md5 on an 11GB file wouldn't push >>every damn process out if it's waiting for me to finish typing a line... > > > I guess that's beyond the scope of a simple patch, you may > be interested in CKRM for something like that: > > http://ckrm.sf.net/
Interesting stuff. > > For now I'm just interested in filling out the holes in > rlimit for the mainline kernel, as well as putting some > simple resource enforcement things in place. > > I'm not about to add something complex at this stage ;) > I really wasn't asking that you should, just mumbling and hoping that some VM-savvy person would say "I can do that!" and offer an elegant solution. Given how little more cache helps for most loads on a machine with adequate memory, it seems silly to have almost all the programs on a 2GB machine pushed out to make room for pages read exactly once by a program copying a 4GB file.
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