Re: Bug?

Darrell Wright (dwright@beached.lakeheadu.ca)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:28:55 -0500


You can use the pam limits facility.

Darrell Wright
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 02:14:04AM +0300, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> In <19991214154634.B3097@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu> Bill Wendling (wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu) wrote:
> > Dunno if this is a bug or if it's supposed to happen like this, but an
> > ordinary user was able to crash inetd on my computer by doing a "make -j"
> > on a very big job.
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> You mean OOM (Out Of Memory) or something other ? Current version of Linux
> (2.2.x) does not handle OOM situations gracefully :-/ It's known problem.
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> > Is this normal or should I supply more information?
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> If you mean just OOM then it's normal :-/ There are no trivial fix and so
> it's not known when (and if) it'll be fixed.
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