On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Ashley wrote:
I would like to see your script. It sounds useful. Perhaps even more than $0.02 worth.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:42:32PM +0600, Nick LeRoy wrote:
Hello...
Just thought I'd add my $0.02 worth in...
I *always* run netscape from a script which uses ulimit to set the amount of memory it can get. If I don't, it sometimes sucks the life out of the machine in similar ways by using all memory. With it ulimitted, it dies after a while (when it can't get any more memory), but my system still lives on. I've been doing this for serveral years.
Hello, I would like to know, if this is Linux specific, or am I able to crash (or freeze) any Unix (Solaris for example) just by eating a lot of memory? Where does this problem come from? When a programm calls a malloc (or something like that), I think the system should return an error, if there is not enough memory. It seems that Linux does *not* return an error (or only too late). Am I right or wrong? Regards, Peter -- Peter Münster http://notrix.net/pm-vcard