From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:37:58 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [RFC] RSS guarantees and limits In-Reply-To: <20000622221923.A8744@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Stephen Tweedie Cc: John Fremlin , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Stephen Tweedie wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 07:00:54PM +0100, John Fremlin wrote: > > > > > - protect smaller apps from bigger memory hogs > > > > Why? Yes, it's very altruistic, very sportsmanlike, but giving small, > > rarely used processes a form of social security is only going to > > increase bureaucracy ;-) > > It is critically important that when under memory pressure, a > system administrator can still log in and kill any runaway > processes. The smaller apps in question here are system daemons > such as init, inetd and telnetd, and user apps such as bash and > ps. We _must_ be able to allow them to make at least some > progress while the VM is under load. Also, the memory space used by these small apps is usually negligable compared to the memory used by the big program. What is 2% memory use for the big program can be the difference between running and crawling for something like bash... regards, Rik -- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength. Wanna talk about the kernel? irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ -- 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/