Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:40:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Rob Hartill <robh@imdb.com> To: dyson@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: server death when swap space is all gone. Message-ID: <199610282240.WAA11017> In-Reply-To: <199610282221.RAA00804@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Oct 28, 96 05:21:25 pm
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John S. Dyson wrote: > >> >> I know linux is crap, but the simple fact is my 96Mb FreeBSD machine >> with 77Mb of swap, doing nothing but "diff" on two files falls over >> with "diff: memory exhausted", while a 48mb linux machine with ? swap >> can produce the 700k diff file. >> >Ahhh.... I thought that you had problems with swap space :-). Nahhh, >we just normally use an arbitrary memory limit of 64MB per proc, easily >upgraded to 128MB by a bash command like: > >ulimit -d 131000 Ah, now that did something. Now I run out of swap, but that's another story. I remember trying to filddle with "limit -h" under tcsh/csh without any luck in the past... so that's what bash's for. thanks.
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