Re: [PATCH] RSS limit enforcement for 2.6

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >Hugh Dickins found a bug in the 2.4-rmap RSS limit enforcing
> >code that may well explain why the previous port of the code
> >to 2.6 resulted in bad performance.  The split active lists
> >in 2.4-rmap probably masked the largest damages, but in 2.6
> >it was very much visible.
> >
> >
> 
> Hi Rik,
> What was the problem by the way?

When running lingvistics computation, machine got completely
unusable due to bad memory pressure. nice -n 19 was
useless. Memory limit should help.
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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         

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