Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:12:10 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: RLIMIT virtual mem per user? |
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On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 09:13:43PM +0200, forcer wrote:
> I heard many complains lately about the lack of a limit for memory > per user, similar to RLIMIT_NPROC.
> I really wonder why this isn't implemented yet.
It's a 2.3.x thing. AlanC has already had a crack at this of sorts (the beancounter stuff).
> Forgive any possible misconceptions, sadly i'm not a kernel-hacker, > but i don't see any big problems there:
> - We add a field `cur_mem' to the user which holds the currently assigned > memory for that user
What if that memory is a shared RO page, mmap from a file owner by someone else?
> - On every call for new memory (mmap, sbrk, any more?) we check > this field plus the requested amount against the limit, and > return an error if it's over the limit.
We also need to charge for memory outside of this. Memory used in sockets and pipes for example.
-cw
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