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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Roger Heflin <rheflin@atipa.com>
Cc: "'Al Boldi'" <a1426z@gawab.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Resource limits
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:11:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127754691.27757.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EXCHG2003ogxLDp7mvj00000ae4@EXCHG2003.microtech-ks.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-26 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-25 14:12 Resource limits Al Boldi
2005-09-26  3:36 ` Rik van Riel
2005-09-26 14:18   ` Al Boldi
2005-09-26 15:56     ` Neil Horman
2005-09-26 17:32       ` Al Boldi
2005-09-26 17:51         ` Neil Horman
2005-09-26 20:26           ` Al Boldi
2005-09-27  1:05             ` Neil Horman
2005-09-27  5:08               ` Al Boldi
2005-09-27 12:08                 ` Neil Horman
2005-09-27 13:42                   ` Al Boldi
2005-09-27 14:36                     ` Neil Horman
2005-09-27 15:50                       ` Al Boldi
2005-09-27 17:25                         ` Neil Horman
2005-09-27 21:35                 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2005-09-26 12:28 ` Neil Horman
2005-09-26 14:44 ` Roger Heflin
2005-09-26 17:11   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-09-26 17:32     ` Al Boldi
2005-09-26 21:21     ` Roger Heflin
2005-09-27  3:50   ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-09-26 19:07 ` Matthew Helsley
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-24 12:13 Frank Cornelis
2002-10-24 16:46 ` Randolph Bentson

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