Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161135AbVKDKZT (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 05:25:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161136AbVKDKZT (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 05:25:19 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:53950 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161135AbVKDKZR (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 05:25:17 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] swapin rlimit From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , Badari Pulavarty , Linus Torvalds , jdike@addtoit.com, rob@landley.net, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, gh@us.ibm.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, mbligh@mbligh.org, kravetz@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20051104072628.GA20108@elte.hu> References: <200511021747.45599.rob@landley.net> <43699573.4070301@yahoo.com.au> <200511030007.34285.rob@landley.net> <20051103163555.GA4174@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <1131035000.24503.135.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051103205202.4417acf4.akpm@osdl.org> <20051104072628.GA20108@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:14:27 +0100 Message-Id: <1131099267.30726.43.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 979 Lines: 24 On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 08:26 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Similarly, that SGI patch which was rejected 6-12 months ago to kill > > off processes once they started swapping. We thought that it could be > > done from userspace, but we need a way for userspace to detect when a > > task is being swapped on a per-task basis. > > wouldnt the clean solution here be a "swap ulimit"? Hmm, where is the difference to "mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE);"? OK, mlockall() can only be done by root (processes). Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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/