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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!europa.clark.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu!not-for-mail From: Timothy Watson <tmwatson@muffin.rs.itd.umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux needs more work to be done! Date: 05 Jul 1997 11:54:05 -0400 Organization: What am I doing? Lines: 13 Message-ID: <xdog1ttebqa.fsf@muffin.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <5oqbad$1582@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> <xdoradosk1v.fsf@bagel.rs.itd.umich.edu> <xdo4taj2akk.fsf@pita.ccs.itd.umich.edu> <5peb7i$aqv$1@netty.york.ac.uk> <pkuip5.tq.ln@zen> NNTP-Posting-Host: muffin.rs.itd.umich.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9715 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43980 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1300 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:65153 comp.os.linux.x:65821 comp.os.linux.setup:119862 comp.os.linux.advocacy:104468 robert@zen.humbug.org.au (Robert Brockway) writes: > Checkout limit or ulimit (depending on your shell). Look particluarly at > memory limits. This is an old trick. Any half decent setup unix won't > notice it once forking stops when the process limit is hit :-) > Ergo, process limits are good too. Linux has some non-functional ulimit code. -- ________________________________________________________________________ T i m o t h y W a t s o n tmwatson@junkmail.umich.edu (get rid of junkmail!) __/| Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down