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

[Nick Piggin]

Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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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