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

[Bill Davidsen]

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.

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