From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:03:54 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: KPATCH] Reserve VM for root (was: Re: Looking for better VM) Message-ID: <20001116170354.A9501@caldera.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 01:51:01PM -0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. -- 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/