From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265434AbUAZCGO (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:06:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265437AbUAZCGO (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:06:14 -0500 Received: from host-64-65-253-246.alb.choiceone.net ([64.65.253.246]:64167 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265434AbUAZCGM (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:06:12 -0500 Message-ID: <40147637.20806@tmr.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:06:47 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: Pavel Machek , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, kernel list Subject: Re: sched-idle and disk-priorities for 2.6.X References: <20040117232926.GC9999@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Pavel Machek wrote: > > >>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. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979