Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:54:54 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed new sysctl MIB nodes Message-ID: <20030225055454.GC20064@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030224224154.F61907@espresso.bsdmike.org> References: <20030224.174742.21056478.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030225005912.GA1583@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <p05200f1eba807c5b0e1d@[128.113.24.47]> <20030225021234.GA1835@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030224224154.F61907@espresso.bsdmike.org>
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In the last episode (Feb 24), Mike Barcroft said: > Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes: > > Also, why a sysctl to get the total amount of memory in the box. > > Isn't getrlimit a much better approach to tune process behaviour? > > Good point, a process may also have resource limits, so the system > memory is almost irrelevant. Too bad we don't support the > standardized RLIMIT_AS option for getrlimit(). Anyone know the difference between our RLIMIT_VMEM and SUSv3's RLIMIT_AS? Unfortunately, RLIMIT_VMEM went into 4.7, so we can't just rename it to RLIMIT_AS... -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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