Re: sched-idle and disk-priorities for 2.6.X

[Nick Piggin]

Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >
> > > Or you could use "ulimit -m" to set the RSS, of course.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't think that would do anything with 2.6 :P
>
>
> Does that imply that the feature doesn't function as documented in 
> 2.6? Or is that a SysV-ism not in SuS and documented but not 
> implemented, or what other reason would there be for it to not work?

The first one. AFAIKS ulimit RSS doesn't do anything in the 2.6 vm.

Rik has a fairly straightforward looking implementation in his 2.4 vm
which probably wouldn't be too hard to forward port. It doesn't impose
a hard limit on RSS though: I'm not sure what the standards say about that.


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