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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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