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Date:      Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:32:53 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: sbrk(2) broken
Message-ID:  <86wsqqaqbe.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20080104002002.L30578@fledge.watson.org> (Robert Watson's message of "Fri\, 4 Jan 2008 00\:26\:31 %2B0000 \(GMT\)")
References:  <477C82F0.5060809@freebsd.org> <863ateemw2.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080104002002.L30578@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> The right answer is presumably to introduce a new LIMIT_SWAP, which
> limits the allocation of anonymous memory by processes, and size it to
> something like 90% of swap space by default.

Not a good solution on its own.  You need a per-process limit as well,
otherwise a malloc() bomb will still cause other processes to fail
randomly.

> Since that won't be happening before 7.0, I believe the consensus is
> to simply not MFC the changes for 7 and proceed with the release.

Thank you :)

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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