Re: limit resident memory size

Timothy Miller (miller@techsource.com)
Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:13:55 -0400

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David Schwartz wrote:
>>I would like to limit the maximum resident memory size
>>of a process within a threshold, i.e. if its virtual
>>memory footprint exceeds this threshold, it needs to
>>swap out pages *only* from within its VM space.
>
>
> Why? If you think this is a good way to be nice to other processes, you're
> wrong.

Why is he wrong?

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