Re: KPATCH] Reserve VM for root (was: Re: Looking for better VM)

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 11:03:54 EST

On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 01:51:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > If you think fork() kills the box then ulimit the maximum number
> > of user processes (ulimit -u). This is a different issue and a
> > bad design in the scheduler (see e.g. Tru64 for a better one).
>
> My fair scheduler catches this one just fine. It hasn't
> been integrated in the kernel yet, but both VA Linux and
> Conectiva use it in their kernel RPM.

BTW: do you have a fairsched patch for 2.4?

        Christoph 

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