On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 22:05 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: > Merging both limits will eliminate the issue, however we would need > individual limits for pagecache and RSS for better control. There are > use cases for pagecache_limit alone without RSS_limit like the case of > database application using direct IO, backup applications and > streaming applications that does not make good use of pagecache.
I'm aware that some people want this. However we rejected adding a pagecache limit to the kernel proper on grounds that reclaim should do a better job. And now we're sneaking it in the backdoor. If we're going to do this, get it in the kernel proper first. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/