From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:05:37 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: KPATCH] Reserve VM for root (was: Re: Looking for better VM) In-Reply-To: <20001116170354.A9501@caldera.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 01:51:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > If you think fork() kills the box then ulimit the maximum number > > > of user processes (ulimit -u). This is a different issue and a > > > bad design in the scheduler (see e.g. Tru64 for a better one). > > > > My fair scheduler catches this one just fine. It hasn't > > been integrated in the kernel yet, but both VA Linux and > > Conectiva use it in their kernel RPM. > > BTW: do you have a fairsched patch for 2.4? I haven't updated it yet to the latest kernels yet... [but I, or someone else, should ;)] regards, Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 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/