From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:48:19 +0200 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [RFC] RSS guarantees and limits Message-ID: <20000622214819.C28360@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> References: <85256906.0059E21B.00@D51MTA03.pok.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: frankeh@us.ibm.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: frankeh@us.ibm.com wrote: > Now I understand this much better. The RSS guarantee is a function of the > refault-rate . > 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 -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/