Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux

Mike Shaver (shaver@neon.ingenia.ca)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:50:30 -0400 (EDT)

Thus spake Rob Hagopian:
> That's ridiculuous, I can do the exact same thing today (cat /dev/zero >
> /tmp/hahawatchthesystemdie ; malloc(1000000000000).

Except that I can enforce a memory usage limit without creating a
/tmp-space limit, and (although less usefully, I think) vice versa.

> However, you only create the argument for resource limits here.

The argument for resource limits already exists, and is met with
quotas/ulimit. tmpfs forces me to tie my disk usage and memory usage
policies together, and I don't think the OS should do that.

Mike

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