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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:54:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bernie Doehner <bad@wireless.net>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: limiting per process swap space utilization like Solaris ulimit?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.990112155324.21181A-100000@wireless.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990112154212.20990C-100000@wireless.net>

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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bernie Doehner 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?

Sorry, I should have said, I understand the reason for this (you cannot
swap out more than entire size of the program). The question should rather
have been, WHY/HOW can the value for swap space limitation not be reduced
to less than data segment + stack?

Bernie
 
> Is this correct / valid for all shells (not just bash, which explicitly
> prints this out as the per process swap space limitation)?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bernie
> 
> 


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