>>1. reclaiming user resources is not that good idea as it looks to you. >>such solutions end up with lots of resources spent on reclaim. >>for user memory reclaims mean consumption of expensive disk I/O bandwidth >>which reduces overall system throughput and influences other users. >> > > > May be I'm overlooking something very obvious. Please tell me, what > happens when a user hits a page fault and the page allocator is easily > able to give a page from its pcp list. But container is over its limit > of physical memory. In your patch there is no attempt by container > support to see if some of the user pages are easily reclaimable. What > options a user will have to make sure some room is created. The patch set send doesn't control user memory! This topic is about kernel memory...
>>2. kernel memory is mostly not reclaimable. can you reclaim vma structs or >>ipc ids? > > > I'm not arguing about that at all. If people want to talk about > reclaiming kernel pages then that should be done independent of this > subject. Then why do you mess user pages accounting into this thread then? Kirill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech