Re: sched-idle and disk-priorities for 2.6.X

[Bill Davidsen]

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
> > Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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.
>
>
>
> 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?


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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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