On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:31:38 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Dillon <dil...@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> :- I might be creating a very limited embedded system with just a few
> : small processes that are all written to *handle* out of memory situations.
>
> Really? Then setting resource limits from within each program is not
> a problem now is it? Then it will get a nice malloc failure instead
> of getting killed by the kernel.
See chris's point... Maybe you have one process that needs 10MB and a few
others that need 300K - 1MB. Resource limits are not useful in this
scenario.
...and, who said anything about using malloc()? :-)
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thor...@nas.nasa.gov>
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