Re: [patch] swapin rlimit

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
>  > Similarly, that SGI patch which was rejected 6-12 months ago to kill 
>  > off processes once they started swapping.  We thought that it could be 
>  > done from userspace, but we need a way for userspace to detect when a 
>  > task is being swapped on a per-task basis.
> 
>  wouldnt the clean solution here be a "swap ulimit"?

Well it's _a_ solution, but it's terribly specific.

How hard is it to read /proc/<pid>/nr_swapped_in_pages and if that's
non-zero, kill <pid>?
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