Re: slow hard drives crushing interactivity

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com>]

Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Havoc Pennington (hp redhat com) said: 
>  
>
> > Maybe a cap on process size, so there can be 1G virtual memory but an
> > individual app can only use 512M? Maybe when a process reaches 512M we
> > could suspend it and ask the user whether to 
> > let it grow further?
> >    
>
> You can set rlimits; you can also turn off overcommit. Doesn't help
> the yum/rpm case, of course.
>  

Well threre's really only a single read(2) and write(2) for all I/O in rpm,
I could perhaps add a configgerable and context sensitive nanosleep
if I/O is the bottleneck ;-)

73 de Jeff