predictability in an unpredictable world

1999-07-15 Thread Anthony Kimball - High Performance Computing
If there were a mechanism whereby one could opt out of the SIGKILL, most if not all of the complaints would go away. SIGDANGER would suffice, but even a rude hack would do in a pinch, such as the one included below (untested). If you mmap real disk instead of sbrk'ing, and use this procfs contro

predictability in an unpredictable world

1999-07-15 Thread Anthony Kimball - High Performance Computing
If there were a mechanism whereby one could opt out of the SIGKILL, most if not all of the complaints would go away. SIGDANGER would suffice, but even a rude hack would do in a pinch, such as the one included below (untested). If you mmap real disk instead of sbrk'ing, and use this procfs contr