From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: KPATCH] Reserve VM for root (was: Re: Looking for better VM)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:03:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001116170354.A9501@caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011161313310.13085-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 01:51:01PM -0200
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 01:51:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > If you think fork() kills the box then ulimit the maximum number
> > of user processes (ulimit -u). This is a different issue and a
> > bad design in the scheduler (see e.g. Tru64 for a better one).
>
> My fair scheduler catches this one just fine. It hasn't
> been integrated in the kernel yet, but both VA Linux and
> Conectiva use it in their kernel RPM.
BTW: do you have a fairsched patch for 2.4?
Christoph
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-16 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-02 6:21 pavel-velo
2000-11-16 15:01 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2000-11-16 15:51 ` Rik van Riel
2000-11-16 16:03 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2000-11-16 16:05 ` Rik van Riel
2000-11-16 21:33 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2000-11-18 20:49 ` Pavel Machek
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