From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [patch] swapin rlimit From: Bernd Petrovitsch In-Reply-To: <20051104072628.GA20108@elte.hu> References: <200511021747.45599.rob@landley.net> <43699573.4070301@yahoo.com.au> <200511030007.34285.rob@landley.net> <20051103163555.GA4174@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <1131035000.24503.135.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051103205202.4417acf4.akpm@osdl.org> <20051104072628.GA20108@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:14:27 +0100 Message-Id: <1131099267.30726.43.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , Badari Pulavarty , Linus Torvalds , jdike@addtoit.com, rob@landley.net, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, gh@us.ibm.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, mbligh@mbligh.org, kravetz@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-ID: On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 08:26 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Similarly, that SGI patch which was rejected 6-12 months ago to kill > > off processes once they started swapping. We thought that it could be > > done from userspace, but we need a way for userspace to detect when a > > task is being swapped on a per-task basis. > > wouldnt the clean solution here be a "swap ulimit"? Hmm, where is the difference to "mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE);"? OK, mlockall() can only be done by root (processes). Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org