Re: [PATCH] fs: limit maximum concurrent coredumps

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/21/2010 06:23 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> A core dump is just an instance of a process suddenly reading lots of its
> address space and doing lots of filesystem writes, producing the kinds of
> thrashing that any such instance might entail.

It is, although with one possibly important difference: the process has
had an involuntary state transition, which may mean that its priority
settings that it had as a "live" process are no longer applicable.  It
would certainly seem appropriate to give the administrator the option of
altering the priority parameters of coredumping processes.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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