Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:41:14 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <199907132141.OAA24339@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:31:38 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> :- I might be creating a very limited embedded system with just a few
> : small processes that are all written to *handle* out of memory situations.
>
> Really? Then setting resource limits from within each program is not
> a problem now is it? Then it will get a nice malloc failure instead
> of getting killed by the kernel.
See chris's point... Maybe you have one process that needs 10MB and a few
others that need 300K - 1MB. Resource limits are not useful in this
scenario.
...and, who said anything about using malloc()? :-)
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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