On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:26:10PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: > Toumas, not having really used the Evolution address book (I'm back to using > Balsa/Mutt) I gave it a whirl and experienced exactly what you described. > > I could watch (with gkrellm) my RAM and swap get gobbled up. I averted a > crash only by closing Evolution just before the swap filled up. It also works > fine on my i386 machine.
How to prevent runaway processes from eating all your RAM and causing trouble for the rest of the system: put ulimit -S -v 100000 in /etc/profile. (adjust to whatever number of bytes of virtual memory you want any one process to be able to use. This is a soft limit, so users can bump it up if they need more for anything, without needing any rootly priviledges.) If you want to stop runaway daemons as well, I guess you could set the limits in /etc/init.d/rc, since that script runs all the S* and K* scripts, so the limits will be inherited. see help ulimit for more info. (It's has to be a shell builtin to work, so it is, so bash has built in help for it. There's a man page too.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
