Re: [patch] swapin rlimit

[Paul Jackson]

Arjan wrote:
> doing this from userspace is tricky; what if the task dies of natural
> causes and the pid gets reused, between the time the userspace app reads
> the value and the time it decides the time is up and time for a kill....
> (and on a busy server that can be quite a bit of time)

If pids are being reused within seconds of their being freed up,
then the batch managers running on the big HPC systems I care
about are so screwed it isn't even funny.  They depend heavily
on being able to identify the task pids in a job and then doing
something to those tasks (suspend, kill, gather stats, ...).

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