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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Thursday 2007-12-20 at 09:22 -1000, kanenas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > Even if one nices and ionices beagle, there still is the matter of 
> > swap space
> > getting filled. Usually it is when that happens when ugly  thoughts 
> > against
> > the developers spring to life. is there a "swapnice" or something for 
> > control
> > of max swap space an app can use?
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> If an application need memory, there is no memory free, and there is 
> swap, the kernel will give it as much as it wants - unless you limit it 
> with ulimit and friends.

I just checked the man page for ulimit, and did a search
for the string "swap" and it came up empty... so it looks
like ulimit might not help here....although ulimit -v can set
an upper limit on virtual memory, and -d can cap the
size of the process's data segment (although I have no
idea of how that impacts malloc() or other dynamic
memory allocation methods.


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