From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.fys.ruu.nl (max.fys.ruu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA17955 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 12:02:57 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:37:12 +0100 (MET) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: report [PATCH] buffermem limit Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm Cc: linux-kernel List-ID: Hi, I've done some tests with the patch I've just posted, and results are encouraging indeed. I managed to do 18 (!) diffs on /usr/src/linux without much trouble. During that period, all kinds of memory maps from other programs were paged out and things kinda thrashed, but WorkMan was able to update it's slidebars at least once every 2 seconds and even Netscape (version 3) was usable, as long as you kept moving the mouse :-) Maybe it's time for implementing minimum RSS limits for processes, but this needs to go hand in hand with process suspension and other things... Rik. +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | Linux: - LinuxHQ MM-patches page | Scouting webmaster | | - kswapd ask-him & complain-to guy | Vries cubscout leader | | http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~riel/ | | +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+