slow hard drives crushing interactivity

[Jeff Johnson]

Bill Nottingham wrote:

>Havoc Pennington (hp at redhat.com) said: 
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>>Maybe a cap on process size, so there can be 1G virtual memory but an
>>individual app can only use 512M? Maybe when a process reaches 512M we
>>could suspend it and ask the user whether to 
>>let it grow further?
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>You can set rlimits; you can also turn off overcommit. Doesn't help
>the yum/rpm case, of course.
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Well threre's really only a single read(2) and write(2) for all I/O in rpm,
I could perhaps add a configgerable and context sensitive nanosleep
if I/O is the bottleneck ;-)

73 de Jeff