On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 09:53 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > The solution is to charge the pages dirtied by the exited gcc to the > other random gcc/dd instances. random dirtying task, seeing it lacks a !strcmp(t->comm, "gcc") || ! strcmp(t->comm, "dd") clause. > It sounds not perfect, however should > behave good enough in practice. Seeing as that throttled tasks aren't actually running so those that are running are more likely to pick it up and get throttled, therefore promoting an equal spread.. ? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href