[Devel] Re: [patch00/05]: Containers(V2)- Introduction

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Paul Jackson wrote:

> > Hmmm... That gets into issues of knowing how many pages are in use by an 
> > application and that is fundamentally difficult to do due to pages being 
> > shared between processes.
> 
> Fundamentally difficult or not, it seems to be required for what Nick
> describes, and for sure cpusets doesn't do it (track memory usage per
> container.)

We have the memory usage on a node. So in that sense we track memory 
usage. We also have VM counters for that node or nodes that describe 
resource usage.