Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:06:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: sbrk(2) broken Message-ID: <20080104110511.S77222@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <86wsqqaqbe.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <477C82F0.5060809@freebsd.org> <863ateemw2.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080104002002.L30578@fledge.watson.org> <86wsqqaqbe.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --621616949-938840691-1199444763=:77222 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > 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,=20 > otherwise a malloc() bomb will still cause other processes to fail random= ly. That was what I had in mind, the above should read RLIMIT_SWAP. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge --621616949-938840691-1199444763=:77222--
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