Re: [Vserver] RSS vs. AS, and swap.

From: Per Andreas Buer <per.buer_at_linpro.no>
Date: Thu 12 Jan 2006 - 08:05:27 GMT
Message-ID: <43C60DC7.8070804@linpro.no>

Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:38:25AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:38:58PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>
>>> I want my VServer to not be able to choke my real server by
>>> using up all the RAM, so I set an RSS limitation. As you can
>>> see, it's not working very well:
>>>
>>> PROC: 72 142 -1 0
>>> VM: 104883 223551 -1 0
>>> VML: 0 0 -1 0
>>> RSS: 56597 131072 131072 356
>>>
>> well, as we see it is working very well ...
>>
>
> Well, in some sense. I don't want my processes to get killed.
>

There is no other way. Since memory allocation can happen by simply
touching a page almost no applications handle running out of memory in a
sane way.

Per.
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