On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> Hmm... "if ( freemem < (size_of_mallocing_process / 20) ) fail_to_allocate;"
>
> Seems like a reasonable soft limit - processes which have already got
> lots of RAM can probably stand not to have that little bit more and
> can be curbed more quickly.
This looks like it could nicely in preventing a single process
from getting out of hand and gobbling up all memory.
It won't prevent the system from a mongolian horde of processes,
but nobody should expect your one-liner to fix world piece ;)
I like it, now lets test it ;)
regards,
Rik
-- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Mar 31 2001 - 21:00:10 EST