From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sched-idle and disk-priorities for 2.6.X
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:24:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <400953B9.3090900@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401161937.i0GJbJmv003365@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> A better bet would be a patch that allowed you to set the maximum RSS size for
> the process so it can basically thrash itself while leaving enough memory for
> everybody else (and yes, I *know* how this can be self-defeating if the
> thrashing app then increases the total I/O consumed to be higher than the I/O
> bandwidth available - the point is that it's probably the high RSS value for
> his application causing OTHER things to thrash that's the root cause of his
> performance problem).
Or you could use "ulimit -m" to set the RSS, of course.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-17 15:25 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 [this message]
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
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