On Tuesday 31 August 2004 18:52, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

quoted

Is there a concept of a minimum working set size of an application? (kind
of the reverse of an RSS limit)

Not really. A hungry memory app can starve the rest of the system.

I noticed that a few times on our spamassassin box :-)

One thing: what kernel version are you using?

2.6.9-rc1-bk3

I've seen extreme decreases in performance (interactivity) with hungry
memory apps with Rik's swap token code.

Decrease?!
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