Re: [PATCH] fs: limit maximum concurrent coredumps

[Jiri Kosina]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, 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.  

But priority settings don't apply any more for core dumping process, do 
they?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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