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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 17:36:50 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] RSS ulimit enforcement for 2.6.8
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Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  > Also, I wonder if it would be useful if refill_inactive_zone() were to
>  > unconditionally move pages from over-rss-limit mm's onto the inactive
>  > list, ignoring swappiness.  Or if we should explicitly deactivate pages
>  > which are newly added to the LRU on behalf of an over-rss-limit process.
> 
>  If the current patch isn't effective enough, we may want
>  to add more code.  However, we may want to try the simplest
>  possible approach first.

How do we know whether it is effective enough?  How do we define this?