Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-14 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:41:19AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: > There are various patches-ways-to-do available, kernel gurus are still working > on it... > (leave always some 4% of mem for root, kill some process when mem is exhausted, > which one to kill...) which is a bad idea; 4% of 1GB

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-14 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:41:19AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: There are various patches-ways-to-do available, kernel gurus are still working on it... (leave always some 4% of mem for root, kill some process when mem is exhausted, which one to kill...) which is a bad idea; 4% of 1GB is a

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:25:25 Jussi Laako wrote: > Marc Mutz wrote: > > > > Just to not miss the obvious: You know about ulimit(3)? > > Yes, but it doesn't stop deadlocks caused by kernel's VM system going > wild... I think that no matter what user process does, root should be always > able to

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Jussi Laako
Marc Mutz wrote: > > Just to not miss the obvious: You know about ulimit(3)? Yes, but it doesn't stop deadlocks caused by kernel's VM system going wild... I think that no matter what user process does, root should be always able to stop it. User process should never be able to render whole

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Marc Mutz
Jussi Laako wrote: > > Hello, > > Would it be possible to implement some VM CPUtime/bandwidth limitation? > Just to not miss the obvious: You know about ulimit(3)? man 3 ulimit help ulimit (when in bash). Marc -- Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://EncryptionHOWTO.sourceforge.net/

VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Jussi Laako
Hello, Would it be possible to implement some VM CPUtime/bandwidth limitation? We have server used by multiple developers. Problem is when someone happens to implement memory hole to application the system goes wild swapping and ALL other activity stops. No response to keyboard/mouse events nor

VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Jussi Laako
Hello, Would it be possible to implement some VM CPUtime/bandwidth limitation? We have server used by multiple developers. Problem is when someone happens to implement memory hole to application the system goes wild swapping and ALL other activity stops. No response to keyboard/mouse events nor

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Marc Mutz
Jussi Laako wrote: Hello, Would it be possible to implement some VM CPUtime/bandwidth limitation? snip Just to not miss the obvious: You know about ulimit(3)? man 3 ulimit help ulimit (when in bash). Marc -- Marc Mutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://EncryptionHOWTO.sourceforge.net/

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Jussi Laako
Marc Mutz wrote: Just to not miss the obvious: You know about ulimit(3)? Yes, but it doesn't stop deadlocks caused by kernel's VM system going wild... I think that no matter what user process does, root should be always able to stop it. User process should never be able to render whole system