Re: [PATCH] RSS ulimit enforcement for 2.6.8

[Bill Davidsen]

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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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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