Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler)

From: Matthew Hawkins (matthew@topic.com.au)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 09:49:24 EST

On 2000-10-11 09:45:30 -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> Until user memory resource quotas are included in the kernel, there will be
> nothing else that can be done. Even with resource quotas, if the total of
> active users exceeds the resource then the same/equivalent situation occurs.

So setrlimit() with RLIMIT_DATA, RLIMIT_STACK, RLIMIT_RSS,
RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, RLIMIT_AS et al is a null op?

If so, I wish to register a complaint ;-) 

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