RE: Resource limits

Alan Cox
2005-09-26T16:44:44Z

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