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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: Muthian Sivathanu <muthian_s@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: limit resident memory size
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:13:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EE90933.8090209@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKOEBMDKAA.davids@webmaster.com



David Schwartz wrote:
>>I would like to limit the maximum resident memory size
>>of a process within a threshold, i.e. if its virtual
>>memory footprint exceeds this threshold, it needs to
>>swap out pages *only* from within its VM space.
> 
> 
> 	Why? If you think this is a good way to be nice to other processes, you're
> wrong.

Why is he wrong?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-12 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-12 20:55 limit resident memory size Muthian Sivathanu
2003-06-12 22:15 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-12 23:03   ` Muthian Sivathanu
2003-06-12 23:13   ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2003-06-12 23:37     ` David Schwartz
2003-06-13 17:02       ` Muthian Sivathanu
2003-06-13  2:07   ` Rik van Riel
2003-06-13 10:21   ` jlnance

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