On Thu, 2006-29-06 at 23:01 -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > jamal wrote: > > > > > >>As long as the user is willing to pay the price in terms of memory, > >> > >> > > > >You may wanna draw a line to the upper limit - maybe even allocate slab > >space. > > > > > Didn't quite understand...could you please elaborate ? > Today we have a slab cache from which the taskstats structure gets > allocated at the beginning > of the exit() path. > The upper limit to which you refer is the amount of slab memory the user > is willing to be used > to store the bursty traffic ? >
I think you have it fine already if you have a slab - as long as you know you will run out of space and have some strategy to deal with such boundary conditions. I was only reacting to your statement "As long as the user is willing to pay the price in terms of memory" I think you meant that a user could adjust the slab size on bootup etc, but it is finite in size. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
