Messages in this thread | | | From | Mike Shaver <> | Subject | Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:50:30 -0400 (EDT) |
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Thus spake Rob Hagopian: > That's ridiculuous, I can do the exact same thing today (cat /dev/zero > > /tmp/hahawatchthesystemdie ; malloc(1000000000000).
Except that I can enforce a memory usage limit without creating a /tmp-space limit, and (although less usefully, I think) vice versa.
> However, you only create the argument for resource limits here.
The argument for resource limits already exists, and is met with quotas/ulimit. tmpfs forces me to tie my disk usage and memory usage policies together, and I don't think the OS should do that.
Mike
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