Re: Conveying memory pressure to userspace?

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Bas Westerbaan wrote:

> These applications are unaware of memory pressure.  While the kernel
> is trying its best to to free memory by for instance dropping,
> possibly more valuable caches, userspace is left blissfully unaware.

cpusets export a notion of memory pressure to user space. See the cpusets 
documentation.
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