"Charles M. Hannum" wrote:
>
> That's also objectively false. Most such environments I've had
> experience with are, in fact, multi-user systems. As you've pointed
> out yourself, there is no combination of resource limits and whatnot
> that are guaranteed to prevent `crashing' a multi-user system due to
> overcommit. My simulation should not be axed because of a bug in
> someone else's program. (This is also not hypothetical. There was a
> bug in one version of bash that caused it to consume all the memory it
> could and then fall over.)
In which case the program that consumed all memory will be killed.
The program killed is +NOT+ the one demanding memory, it's the one
with most of it.
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