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From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: frankeh@us.ibm.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] RSS guarantees and limits
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:48:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000622214819.C28360@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85256906.0059E21B.00@D51MTA03.pok.ibm.com>; from frankeh@us.ibm.com on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:22:55PM -0400

frankeh@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Now I understand this much better. The RSS guarantee is a function of the
> refault-rate <clever>.
> This in principle implements a decay of the limit based on usage.... I like
> that approach.

Be careful with refault rate.  If a process is unable to progress
because of memory pressure, it will have a low refault rate even though
it's _trying_ to fault in lots of pages at high speed.

-- Jamie
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-06-22 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-22 16:22 frankeh
2000-06-22 16:38 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 19:48 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2000-06-22 19:52   ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 20:00     ` Jamie Lokier
2000-06-22 20:07       ` Rik van Riel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-06-23 18:07 frankeh
2000-06-23 14:01 frankeh
2000-06-23 17:56 ` Stephen Tweedie
2000-06-22 23:02 Mark_H_Johnson
2000-06-22 15:49 frankeh
2000-06-22 16:05 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 14:41 frankeh
2000-06-22 15:31 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-21 22:29 Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 18:00 ` John Fremlin
2000-06-22 19:12   ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 21:19   ` Stephen Tweedie
2000-06-22 21:37     ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 22:48       ` John Fremlin
2000-06-22 23:59         ` Stephen Tweedie
2000-06-23 16:08           ` John Fremlin
2000-06-22 22:39     ` John Fremlin
2000-06-22 23:27       ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-23  0:49         ` Ed Tomlinson
2000-06-23 13:45           ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-23 15:36             ` volodya
2000-06-23 15:52         ` John Fremlin

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