Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:03:32 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Problem with large core dumps [2.1.85, SMP] |
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Hein Roehrig wrote:
>Hi, > >I use 2.1.85 on a dual P II board (Gigabyte DLX, pirq=0 on command line) with >256M RAM: I have a process that needs about 1 gigabyte to run successfully. If >I set up a sufficently large swap space, then the program runs (slowly) >without any problem. But if there isn't enough memory, the process aborts with >a core dump -- totally freezing the system while the core dump (in the order >of 300M with 128M swap) is written to the disk, to the point that exec doesn't >work anymore (unable to load interpreter or just plain immediate coredump). >With 2.0.33 this does not happen. > >On a related note: Could somebody confirm that there is no way to restrict the >resident set size of a process under Linux (since ulimit is not implemented)?
But sure you can restrict the core size limit:
ulimit -c 0
under bash.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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