Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265041AbTFLWrA (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:47:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265043AbTFLWq7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:46:59 -0400 Received: from wmail.atlantic.net ([209.208.0.84]:28856 "HELO wmail.atlantic.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265041AbTFLWq4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:46:56 -0400 Message-ID: <3EE90933.8090209@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:13:55 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Schwartz CC: Muthian Sivathanu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: limit resident memory size References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 598 Lines: 20 David Schwartz wrote: >>I would like to limit the maximum resident memory size >>of a process within a threshold, i.e. if its virtual >>memory footprint exceeds this threshold, it needs to >>swap out pages *only* from within its VM space. > > > Why? If you think this is a good way to be nice to other processes, you're > wrong. Why is he wrong? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/