Re: Some questions about linux kernel.

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 12:12:29 EST


On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > > Indeed. There is always a way to fool any OOM killer.
> > > The only thing that could save us here are proper
> > > per-user resource limits,
> >
> > so isn't what should be concentrated on? Per user limits are a
> > cleaner way of fixing the problem.
>
> s/fixing/avoiding/
> s/.$/ in a lot of cases./
>
> > i guess though it's a 2.5 thing. Rik, do you know of anyone
> > investigating per-user limits for 2.5? (a lot of linux users
> > would like to see it.. hint hint..)

http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~marcelo/userbean.5

> Some people are looking into this and if you remind them
> they might even finish it :)

Rik, could you please describe yours per-user resource limits idea which
we were discussing?

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