Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:06:32 -0800 (PST) From: Bernie Doehner <bad@wireless.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: limiting per process swap space utilization like Solaris ulimit? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990112170304.21447A-100000@wireless.net> In-Reply-To: <199901130030.RAA15567@usr08.primenet.com>
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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Why is it that under bash's ulimit -v, the swap space utilization is the > > sum of the data segment size and the stack size? > > Read-only pages don't need to be backed by swap? Actualy I already asked the very same question in a different forum. I assume the text segment is NOT swapped out because it is referenced way TOO often to be practical/efficient to swap out? > > Is this correct / valid for all shells (not just bash, which explicitly > > prints this out as the per process swap space limitation)? > > On machines where the program image is not used as a read-only > swap store, this would be different. You may have to install an > old copy of Xenix or SVR3.2 to find such a machine, though... > Actualy I think Solaris does this too.. Thanks. Bernie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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