Re: Memory management in Kernel 2.4.x

[Peter Wächtler]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 14:45, Peter Wächtler wrote:
> 
>>There is still the oom killer (Out Of Memory).
>>But it doesn't trigger and the machine pages "forever".
>>Usually kswapd eats the CPU then, discarding and reloading pages,
>>searching lists for pages to evict and so on.
>>
> 
> On a -ac kernel with mode 2 or 3 set for overcommit you have to run out
> of kernel resources to hang the box. It won't go OOM because it can't.
> That wouldn't be a VM bug but a leak or poor handling of kernel
> allocations somewhere. Sadly the changes needed to do that (beancounter
> patch) were things Linus never accepted for 2.4
> 

I heard of the "beancounter patch" several times now.
Where is it - that beancounter patch? What does it besides bean counting ;-)
ah, googled it:

ftp://ftp.sw.com.sg/pub/Linux/people/saw/kernel/user_beancounter/UserBeancounter.html

I think we will get another candidate for beancounting: the futexes are locking
user pages.. and I already thought about accounting with
setrlimit/ulimit and "max locked memory (kbytes)"