On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 08:54:38AM -0500, Skip Ford wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > >Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org> writes: > > >>The right answer is presumably to introduce a new LIMIT_SWAP, which > > >>limits the allocation of anonymous memory by processes, and size it to > > >>something like 90% of swap space by default. > > > > > >Not a good solution on its own. You need a per-process limit as well, > > >otherwise a malloc() bomb will still cause other processes to fail > > >randomly. > > > > That was what I had in mind, the above should read RLIMIT_SWAP. > > Are you referring to the implementation of RLIMIT_SWAP in the > overcommit-disable patch at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/overcommit/index.html > > ...or some other as yet unwritten implementation? That patch doesn't > currently do 90% of swap but easily can. That's been available for almost 3 > years now. I tested it at one point but not lately and it never went into > production. Do you, and others, have a problem with that implementation? Oh, I thought that I was the sole user of the patch. What problems did you encountered while testing it ? What you mean by "do 90% of swap" ?
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