From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 23:36:28 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch] swapin rlimit Message-Id: <20051103233628.12ed1eee.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20051104072628.GA20108@elte.hu> References: <200511021747.45599.rob@landley.net> <43699573.4070301@yahoo.com.au> <200511030007.34285.rob@landley.net> <20051103163555.GA4174@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <1131035000.24503.135.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051103205202.4417acf4.akpm@osdl.org> <20051104072628.GA20108@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: pbadari@gmail.com, torvalds@osdl.org, jdike@addtoit.com, rob@landley.net, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, gh@us.ibm.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, mbligh@mbligh.org, kravetz@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-ID: Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Similarly, that SGI patch which was rejected 6-12 months ago to kill > > off processes once they started swapping. We thought that it could be > > done from userspace, but we need a way for userspace to detect when a > > task is being swapped on a per-task basis. > > wouldnt the clean solution here be a "swap ulimit"? Well it's _a_ solution, but it's terribly specific. How hard is it to read /proc//nr_swapped_in_pages and if that's non-zero, kill ? -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org