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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) 
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:
: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>

    Sure they are.

	limit datasize 1m
	run process A
	limit datasize 10m
	run process B

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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