From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com [216.82.243.55]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4F86B0070 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:15:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4EC2FDA9.6050401@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:02:49 -0500 From: KOSAKI Motohiro MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2] Enforce RSS+Swap rlimit References: <4EB3FA89.6090601@redhat.com> <4EC264AA.30306@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4EC264AA.30306@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: jmarchan@redhat.com Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On 11/15/2011 8:10 AM, Jerome Marchand wrote: > > Change since V1: rebase on 3.2-rc1 > > Currently RSS rlimit is not enforced. We can not forbid a process to exceeds > its RSS limit and allow it swap out. That would hurts the performance of all > system, even when memory resources are plentiful. > > Therefore, instead of enforcing a limit on rss usage alone, this patch enforces > a limit on rss+swap value. This is similar to memsw limits of cgroup. > If a process rss+swap usage exceeds RLIMIT_RSS max limit, he received a SIGBUS > signal. No good idea. - RLIMIT_RSS has clear definition and this patch break it. you should makes another rlimit at least. - SIGBUS can be ignored. rlimit shouldn't ignorable. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org