From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sched-idle and disk-priorities for 2.6.X
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 08:19:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040126071945.GA208@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40147637.20806@tmr.com>
Hi!
> >>Is there effective way to limit RSS?
> >
> >
> >Want me to port the RSS stuff from 2.4-rmap to 2.6 ?
>
> What's the effort? It's useful for programs which use a lot of memory,
> particularly for those which only do it on some data sets. It would
> certainly act as a safty net.
If you have two apps which oth need lots of memory, and want to
"renice" one to run slower.
Alternatively when you have one app eating a lots of memory and you
want your system to remain usable.
Pavel
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-26 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-16 18:10 sched-idle and disk-priorities for 2.6.X Pavel Machek
2004-01-16 19:37 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-17 15:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-17 15:29 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-19 4:50 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-19 5:39 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-17 23:29 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-18 18:47 ` Rik van Riel
2004-01-18 19:58 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-21 19:49 ` Rik van Riel
2004-01-22 1:04 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-22 1:13 ` Rik van Riel
2004-01-23 18:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-23 19:04 ` Rik van Riel
2004-01-23 21:04 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-26 23:08 ` bill davidsen
2004-02-03 19:13 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-26 2:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-26 7:19 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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