Rik van Riel wrote:

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote:

quoted

Since this is broken down nicely, a line or two about what each patch 
does or doesn't address would be useful. In particular, having just 
gotten a working RSS I'm suspicious of the patch named vm-no-rss-limit 
being desirable ;-)

The bug with the RSS limit patch is that I forgot to
change the exec() code, so when init is exec()d it
gets an RSS limit of zero, which is inherited by all
its children --> always over the RSS limit, no page
aging, etc.

I need to find the cleanest way to add the inheriting
of RSS limit at exec time and send a patchlet for that
to akpm...

Thank you! I had assumed that the info was being carried through exec, 
fork, and pthread_* and similar, and just not enforced.

I still think this will be great for those applications known to 
occasionally get a tough data set and not converge or recurse beyond all 
sense.

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bill davidsen [off-list ref]
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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