From: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
To: John Fremlin <vii@penguinpowered.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] RSS guarantees and limits
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:19:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000622221923.A8744@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2lmzx38a1.fsf@boreas.southchinaseas>; from vii@penguinpowered.com on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 07:00:54PM +0100
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 07:00:54PM +0100, John Fremlin wrote:
>
> > - protect smaller apps from bigger memory hogs
>
> Why? Yes, it's very altruistic, very sportsmanlike, but giving small,
> rarely used processes a form of social security is only going to
> increase bureaucracy ;-)
It is critically important that when under memory pressure, a
system administrator can still log in and kill any runaway
processes. The smaller apps in question here are system daemons
such as init, inetd and telnetd, and user apps such as bash and
ps. We _must_ be able to allow them to make at least some
progress while the VM is under load.
Cheers,
Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-22 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
2000-06-24 11:22 ` Andrey Savochkin
2000-06-27 3:26 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-06-22 14:41 [RFC] " frankeh
2000-06-22 15:31 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 15:49 frankeh
2000-06-22 16:05 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 16:22 frankeh
2000-06-22 16:38 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 19:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-06-22 19:52 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 20:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-06-22 20:07 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-22 23:02 Mark_H_Johnson
2000-06-23 14:01 frankeh
2000-06-23 17:56 ` Stephen Tweedie
2000-06-23 18:07 frankeh
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