On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:36:22AM +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote: > Hi Muli, > > First, 10x for the input. > Anyhow, what I'm trying to figure out is why RLIMIT_RSS (or ulimit -m) > has no effect at all.
The man page tells you: it only affects calls to madvise() specifying MADVISE_WILLNEED. In other words, if the application is kind enough to tell the system how many pages it will need, the system, if ulimit -m is set, will tell it yes or no. Not very useful, I agree. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
