From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:07:44 -0600 From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com Subject: Re: the new VMt Message-ID: <20000925150744.A20586@hq.fsmlabs.com> References: <20000925143523.B19257@hq.fsmlabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Alan Cox on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:46:35PM +0100 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alan Cox Cc: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com, "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Jamie Lokier , mingo@elte.hu, Andrea Arcangeli , Marcelo Tosatti , Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:46:35PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I'm not too sure of what you have in mind, but if it is > > "process creates vast virtual space to generate many page table > > entries -- using mmap" > > the answer is, virtual address space quotas and mmap should kill > > the process on low mem for page tables. > > Those quotas being exactly what beancounter is But that is a function specific counter, not a counter in the alloc code. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com -- 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/