Re: memory limitation test kit (tm) :-)

[Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>]

On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> > I've made a 'very preliminary' test patch to test
> > whether memory limitation / quotation might work.
> 
> Running a single task which has a perfectly reasonable resident set
> larger than num_physpages/2 will thrash unnecessarily.

I know... The patch was just meant as a "look it works ...
euhm, nope" type of eye-opener. Once the swap cache and
inactive list infrastructure is in place, we should replace
RSS limit with active limit, ie. the maximum number of active
pages a process is allowed to have. Then we can do effective
and harmless RSS limitation.

Rik.
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