Re: the new VMt

yodaiken
2000-09-25T21:07:44Z

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:46:35PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'm not too sure of what you have in mind, but if it is
> > "process creates vast virtual space to generate many page table
> > entries -- using mmap"
> > the answer is, virtual address space quotas and mmap should kill
> > the process on low mem for page tables.
>
> Those quotas being exactly what beancounter is

But that is a function specific counter, not a counter in the
alloc code.

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