From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:40:48 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: VM patches (please review) In-Reply-To: <402128D0.2020509@tmr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Since this is broken down nicely, a line or two about what each patch > does or doesn't address would be useful. In particular, having just > gotten a working RSS I'm suspicious of the patch named vm-no-rss-limit > being desirable ;-) The bug with the RSS limit patch is that I forgot to change the exec() code, so when init is exec()d it gets an RSS limit of zero, which is inherited by all its children --> always over the RSS limit, no page aging, etc. I need to find the cleanest way to add the inheriting of RSS limit at exec time and send a patchlet for that to akpm... -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- 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: aart@kvack.org