On Fri, 26 May 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 06:11:10PM -0400, Scott A Crosby wrote:
>> Hello, I tend to run software systems like SML-NJ, or CMUCL. (These are
>> software-systems which use heap-style allocation, similar to JAVA.) They
>> can suddenly consume a large amount of memory without warning.
>>
>> As linux doesn't handle this well, I need to have resource limits designed
>> to kill off these processes before they impact system stability.
>>
>> I cannot do this..
>[snip]
>
>You want an unusual thing.
>Most people prefer that the memory allocation fails rather than the
>application is suddenly killed without giving it a chance to save its data.
>I suggest you to configure (or fix) the applications to allocate the amount
>of memory that your system can afford.
He really wants user memory quotas. Not There yet.
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