Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:18:20 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@ofug.org> Cc: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_map.c vm_map.h vm_pageout.c Message-ID: <20030320081820.GA81566@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpu1dzyohn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <200303122313.h2CNDHMU046431@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030314012954.A42430@FreeBSD.org> <20030314101857.A98861@FreeBSD.org> <200303171156.40901.wes@softweyr.com> <20030319143619.GA47243@catpipe.net> <xzpu1dzyohn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:34:44PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net> writes:
> > Idea: a "contract" mechanism by which a process registers to the kernel and
> > says "ok, during my life, I will never go over X MB RAM (effective, not
> > overcommit)". Warning: this is not a malloc, just a hint.
>
> man setrlimit
setrlimit is a contract signed by a process, while what Phil suggests is
a contract signed by a process _and_ the kernel.
=Anton.
P.S. Dag-Erling, did you read Phil's mail, or did you hit `r' as soon as
you read the first paragraph?
--
It's a short step from "rigor" to "rigor mortis". -- Chip Salzenberg
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