Re: slow hard drives crushing interactivity

["Sean" <seanlkml sympatico ca>]

On Mon, January 24, 2005 6:01 pm, Havoc Pennington said:

> Maybe a cap on process size, so there can be 1G virtual memory but an
> individual app can only use 512M?

This already exists of course, you can set a ulimit on RSS and virtual
memory size.

> If there's no automatic way to make this work, maybe there's at least a
> way to key off a single global desktop vs. server flag rather than
> requiring more detailed tuning?

I wonder if CKRM (http://ckrm.sourceforge.net/) or ilk might help you?

Sean