Re: (2.2.15) Resource limit problems.

From: Jesse Pollard (pollard@cats-chateau.net)
Date: Sat May 27 2000 - 15:31:17 EDT

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    On Fri, 26 May 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
    >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.

    He really wants user memory quotas. Not There yet. 

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