Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux

Rob Hagopian (hagopiar@vuser.vu.union.edu)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:51:52 -0400 (EDT)

That's ridiculuous, I can do the exact same thing today (cat /dev/zero >
/tmp/hahawatchthesystemdie ; malloc(1000000000000).
I'll grant you that it would be nice to have some reserved space for file
system only (or better, aggregate filesystems... mmmmm...), possibly an
essential element. However, you only create the argument for resource
limits here.
-Rob H.

On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Mike Shaver wrote:

> Thus spake Rob Hagopian:
> > I like the Solaris method; we have a machine that uses one partition as
> > both tmp space and swap... For people who need a few hundred megs of swap,
> > it's there, but if you need a few hundred megs of tmp space, it's there...
>
> Until someone creates a _huge_ file in /tmp (as my users are wont to
> do) and all of the sudden you're low on memory.
>
> Or when your MOO/database/rendering eats up piles of memory and
> sendmail can't create temp files and starts rejecting mail.
>
> Colour me unimpressed with tmpfs.
>
> Mike
>
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