On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 3:27:28 pm Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:04:47PM +0200, Edward Tomasz Napiera?a wrote:
> > Wiadomo?? napisana przez Garrett Cooper w dniu 2011-04-06, o godz. 18:57:
> > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierala
> > > <tr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >> Author: trasz
> > >> Date: Wed Apr  6 16:27:04 2011
> > >> New Revision: 220387
> > >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/220387
> > >> 
> > >> Log:
> > >>  In vm_daemon(), do not skip processes stopped with SIGSTOP.
> > > 
> > >    Did you run this by anyone else before you committed the change?
> > 
> > The whole racct patchset was reviewed by kib@, and I seem to remember
> > that he said this might cause problems.  However, I didn't encounter
> > any problems with this, neither did any person testing the patchset.
> > 
> > So, what's wrong with this?
> I remember that I disliked the whole approach of handling RSS limits,
> and still hold the same opinion.
> I said something about honoring the limit at the time of page allocation
> or page-in, and not `offline' as it is committed, by periodic scans
> by daemon.

Yes, to be truly useful the limit has to prevent excessive page allocation
at the time the allocation is performed (by blocking until another page
is swapped out or failing, etc.).

-- 
John Baldwin
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