On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>"A month of sundays ago David Whysong wrote:"
>> the stack still dynamically grows, you have to make sure that you never
>> use more than the preallocated backing store.
>>
>> Is that right?
>
>Yes. But there is nothing to make sure of. I propose that the process
>cannot start unless it has the backing store for its rlimit available -
>and that that store will be bound to it by the kernel for its and it
>alones future use until death do it part.
You want to reserve up to the hard rlimit? That can be a LOT of memory per
process...
A malloc that touches all pages and returns zero on SIGSEGV is
an elegant solution for the heap.
Pre-allocating swap space up to the stack rlimit works, so long as the
kernel handles the case where the rlimit is increased. But this is a less
elegant solution, because you waste some resources in the common case.
I realize I'm splitting hairs here, and root is allowed to kill the
system... but root can increase his hard rlimit.
Dave
David Whysong dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu
Astrophysics graduate student University of California, Santa Barbara
My public PGP keys are on my web page - http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~dwhysong
DSS PGP Key 0x903F5BD6 : FE78 91FE 4508 106F 7C88 1706 B792 6995 903F 5BD6
D-H PGP key 0x5DAB0F91 : BC33 0F36 FCCD E72C 441F 663A 72ED 7FB7 5DAB 0F91
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Mar 31 2000 - 21:00:19 EST