Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:44:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Edward Allcutt <edward@allcutt.me.uk>,
       Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
       Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>,
       Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
       KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: limit maximum concurrent coredumps
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Roland McGrath wrote:

> A core dump is just an instance of a process suddenly reading lots of its
> address space and doing lots of filesystem writes, producing the kinds of
> thrashing that any such instance might entail.  

But priority settings don't apply any more for core dumping process, do 
they?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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