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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:30:51 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        bad@wireless.net (Bernie Doehner)
Cc:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: limiting per process swap space utilization like Solaris ulimit?
Message-ID:  <199901130030.RAA15567@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990112154212.20990C-100000@wireless.net> from "Bernie Doehner" at Jan 12, 99 03:52:03 pm

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> 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?


> 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...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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