From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:04:06 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: the new VMt Message-ID: <20000926170406.C1343@redhat.com> References: <20000925191829.A14612@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <20000925115139.A14999@hq.fsmlabs.com> <20000925200454.A14728@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <20000925121315.A15966@hq.fsmlabs.com> <20000925192453.R2615@redhat.com> <20000925123456.A16612@hq.fsmlabs.com> <20000925202549.V2615@redhat.com> <20000925140419.A18243@hq.fsmlabs.com> <20000925171411.A2397@codepoet.org> <20000926091744.A25214@hq.fsmlabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20000926091744.A25214@hq.fsmlabs.com>; from yodaiken@fsmlabs.com on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:17:44AM -0600 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com Cc: MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:17:44AM -0600, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: > Operating systems cannot make more memory appear by magic. > The question is really about the best strategy for dealing with low memory. In my > opinion, the OS should not try to out-think physical limitations. Instead, the OS > should take as little space as possible and provide the ability for user level > clever management of space. In a truly embedded system, there can easily be a user level > root process that watches memory usage and prevents DOS attacks -- if the OS provides > settable enforced quotas etc. Agreed, absolutely. The beancounter is one approach to those quotas, and has the advantage of allowing per-user as well as per-process quotas. --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/