>Hi,
>
>I use 2.1.85 on a dual P II board (Gigabyte DLX, pirq=0 on command line) with
>256M RAM: I have a process that needs about 1 gigabyte to run successfully. If
>I set up a sufficently large swap space, then the program runs (slowly)
>without any problem. But if there isn't enough memory, the process aborts with
>a core dump -- totally freezing the system while the core dump (in the order
>of 300M with 128M swap) is written to the disk, to the point that exec doesn't
>work anymore (unable to load interpreter or just plain immediate coredump).
>With 2.0.33 this does not happen.
>
>On a related note: Could somebody confirm that there is no way to restrict the
>resident set size of a process under Linux (since ulimit is not implemented)?
But sure you can restrict the core size limit:
ulimit -c 0
under bash.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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