Re: Resource limits

[Al Boldi]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2005-09-26 at 09:44 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
> > While talking about limits, one of my customers report that if
> > they set "ulimit -d" to be say 8GB, and then a program goes and
>
> The kernel doesn't yet support rlimit64() - glibc does but it emulates
> it best effort. Thats a good intro project for someone
>
> > It would seem that the best thing to do would be to abort on
> > allocates that will by themselves exceed the limit.
>
> 2.6 supports "no overcommit" modes.

By name only.  see "Kswapd flaw" thread.

Thanks!

--
Al

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