Re: [Patch][RFC] Disabling per-tgid stats on task exit in taskstats

On Thu, 2006-29-06 at 23:01 -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote:

jamal wrote:

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As long as the user is willing to pay the price in terms of memory,
   

You may wanna draw a line to the upper limit - maybe even allocate slab
space.
 

Didn't quite understand...could you please elaborate ?
Today we have a slab cache from which the taskstats structure gets 
allocated at the beginning
of the exit() path.
The upper limit to which you refer is the amount of slab memory the user 
is willing to be used
to store the bursty traffic ?

I think you have it fine already if you have a slab - as long as you
know you will run out of space and have some strategy to deal with
such boundary conditions. I was only reacting to your statement
"As long as the user is willing to pay the price in terms of memory"
I think you meant that a user could adjust the slab size on bootup etc,
but it is finite in size.

cheers,
jamal