Re: RLIMIT_AS and fixed process size calculations patch

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <8141.1238205299%splode.eterna.com.au@localhost>,
matthew green  <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
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>hi folks.
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>the patch below implements 3 things:
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>       1 - adds a new RLIMIT_AS (aka RLIMIT_VMEM) resource that limits
>       the total address space available to processes.  this limit
>       exists in most other modern unix variants, and like most of
>       them, our defaults are unlimited.
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>       2 - adds the VMCMD_STACK flag to all the stack-creation vmcmd
>       callers.  it is currently unused, but was added a few years ago.
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>       3 - adds a pair of new process size values to kinfo_proc2{}. 
>       one is the total size of the process memory map, and the other
>       is the total size adjusted for unused stack space (since most
>       processes have a lot of this...)
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>i plan to commit this in a couple of days.  please comment.

And the compat code needs adjusting....

christos