RE: Resource limits

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



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.

Alan

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]
  Powered by Linux