linux-kernel - Re: Conveying memory pressure to userspace?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705111005200.32716@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 10:05:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Bas Westerbaan <bas.westerbaan@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Conveying memory pressure to userspace?

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Bas Westerbaan wrote:

> These applications are unaware of memory pressure.  While the kernel
> is trying its best to to free memory by for instance dropping,
> possibly more valuable caches, userspace is left blissfully unaware.

cpusets export a notion of memory pressure to user space. See the cpusets 
documentation.
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