From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com (penguin.e-mind.com [195.223.140.120]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA00136 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:04:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 01:04:19 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: arca-vm-8 [Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm , improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]]] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ehh, and how do you protect against somebody playing games with your mind > by doing _huge_ mappings of something that takes no real memory? The VM > footprint of a process is not necessarily related to how much physical > memory you use. I was infact rejecting from the total_vm calc all tasks with a rss == 0, but yes, I am convinced that my more fine grined counter is not needed. Andrea Arcangeli -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org