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From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sched-idle and disk-priorities for 2.6.X
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:39:59 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <400B6DAF.7090802@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <400B621D.7050307@tmr.com>



Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Or you could use "ulimit -m" to set the RSS, of course.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't think that would do anything with 2.6 :P
>
>
> Does that imply that the feature doesn't function as documented in 
> 2.6? Or is that a SysV-ism not in SuS and documented but not 
> implemented, or what other reason would there be for it to not work?
>

The first one. AFAIKS ulimit RSS doesn't do anything in the 2.6 vm.

Rik has a fairly straightforward looking implementation in his 2.4 vm
which probably wouldn't be too hard to forward port. It doesn't impose
a hard limit on RSS though: I'm not sure what the standards say about that.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-19  5:40 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 [this message]
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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