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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:55:30 -0600
From: "Ram Gupta" <ram.gupta5@gmail.com>
To: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: RSS Limit implementation issue
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On 2/9/06, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Iau, 2006-02-09 at 15:10 -0600, Ram Gupta wrote:
> > I am working to implement enforcing RSS limits of a process. I am
> > planning to make a check for rss limit when setting up pte. If the
> > limit is crossed I see couple of  different ways of handling .
> >
> > 1. Kill the process . In this case there is no swapping problem.
>
> Not good as the process isn't responsible for the RSS size so it would
> be rather random.
>

I doubt I am missing some point here. I dont understand why the
process isn't responsible for RSS size. This limit is process specific
& the count of rss increases when the process maps some page in its
page table.

Thanks
Ram Gupta
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