From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:19:23 +0100 From: Stephen Tweedie Subject: Re: [RFC] RSS guarantees and limits Message-ID: <20000622221923.A8744@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from vii@penguinpowered.com on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 07:00:54PM +0100 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: John Fremlin Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/