slow hard drives crushing interactivity

[Phil Anderson]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 18:29 -0500, Sean wrote:
> On Mon, January 24, 2005 6:01 pm, Havoc Pennington said:
> 
> > Maybe a cap on process size, so there can be 1G virtual memory but
> > an
> > individual app can only use 512M?
> 
> This already exists of course, you can set a ulimit on RSS and virtual
> memory size.

The kernel doesn't enforce RSS limits.  See bug 133675.

Phil

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