Re: mmap, the language go, problems with the linux kernel

[Hannes Frederic Sowa]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> AIX and the BSD's don't implement RLIMIT_AS at all. ÂSolaris does, but
> the man page just says "total available memory", again without
> specifying what that means. ÂSolaris also has a RLIMIT_VMEM, which is
> the total amount of virtual address space, so apparently Solaris seems
> to think that RLIMIT_VMEM and RLIMIT_AS are different things.

Actually, no:
| ./uts/common/sys/resource.h:#define RLIMIT_AS RLIMIT_VMEM

They have a userland daemon called rcapd which enforces rss-limits on
process-groups by paging out their data.
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