Hello,
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 06:11:10PM -0400, Scott A Crosby wrote:
> Hello, I tend to run software systems like SML-NJ, or CMUCL. (These are
> software-systems which use heap-style allocation, similar to JAVA.) They
> can suddenly consume a large amount of memory without warning.
>
> As linux doesn't handle this well, I need to have resource limits designed
> to kill off these processes before they impact system stability.
>
> I cannot do this..
[snip]
You want an unusual thing.
Most people prefer that the memory allocation fails rather than the
application is suddenly killed without giving it a chance to save its data.
I suggest you to configure (or fix) the applications to allocate the amount
of memory that your system can afford.
Best regards
Andrey V.
Savochkin
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