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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RSS limit enforcement for 2.6
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:04:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040318220432.GB1505@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <405699C1.7010906@cyberone.com.au>

Hi!

> >Hugh Dickins found a bug in the 2.4-rmap RSS limit enforcing
> >code that may well explain why the previous port of the code
> >to 2.6 resulted in bad performance.  The split active lists
> >in 2.4-rmap probably masked the largest damages, but in 2.6
> >it was very much visible.
> >
> >
> 
> Hi Rik,
> What was the problem by the way?

When running lingvistics computation, machine got completely
unusable due to bad memory pressure. nice -n 19 was
useless. Memory limit should help.
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-18 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-15 23:21 Rik van Riel
2004-03-16  6:08 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-18 22:04   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-03-25 14:44     ` Rik van Riel
2004-03-25 22:23       ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-27 17:51 Rik van Riel
2004-02-05  7:18 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-05 13:11   ` Nick Piggin

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