Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tim Connors wrote:
>> Or what about
>> automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again
>> (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing
>> this)?
>
> Kinda defeats the purpose of limiting the amount of space the process
> uses. I mean which is better, a clear error message or the machine being
> dropped into swap hell?
This is a prevention of using up all memory? That is the first time
someone claimed that that I saw.
What I saw was always that it was not trivial to make apt-get resize
that mmap on the fly and keep working. Which makes quite a joke about
it being "dynamic".
MfG
Goswin
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