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Subject: Re: sbrk(2) broken
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> The right answer is presumably to introduce a new LIMIT_SWAP, which
>> limits the allocation of anonymous memory by processes, and size it to
>> something like 90% of swap space by default.
>
> Not a good solution on its own.  You need a per-process limit as well,=20
> otherwise a malloc() bomb will still cause other processes to fail random=
ly.

That was what I had in mind, the above should read RLIMIT_SWAP.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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