On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:55:47 +0300 Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Can Balbir's soft-limit patches help ? > > [snip] > > > > > Yes, that could be a useful part of the solution - I suspect we'd need > > to have kswapd do the soft-limit push back as well as in > > try_to_free_pages(), to avoid the high-priority jobs getting stuck in > > the reclaim code. It would also be nice if we had: > > BTW, one of the way OpenVZ users determine how much memory they > need for containers is the following: they set the limits to > maximal values and then check the "maxheld" (i.e. the maximal level > of consumption over the time) value. > > Currently, we don't have such in res_counters and I'm going to > implement this. Objections? > Basically, no objection. BTW, which does it means ? - create a new cgroup to accounting max memory consumption, etc... or - add new member to mem_cgroup or - add new member to res_counter Thanks, -Kame _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
