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Re: VFS reclaims are scarce on netbsd-6



Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:

> So what?  If the memory is wanted for something else, it will be
> reclaimed.  How does this differ from any other filesystem?  In
> fact, this memory seems to me more likely to be effectively reclaimed
> than that holding other vnodes, because (unless you've done something
> to stop it) the server process is, unlike in-kernel holders of vnodes,
> eligible to be paged...

But that means perfused needs to get unlimited rlimits for RLIMIT_AS and
RLIMIT_DATA (and perhaps RLIMIT_RSS?). Is that acceptable?

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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