From: jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu (James Wiegand) Subject: Re: What happens when Linux runs out of memory? [was Thought: compressed libc ?] Date: 22 Mar 1993 06:59:13 GMT
In article <1993Mar20.125620.5067@ousrvr.oulu.fi> nite@phoenix.oulu.fi (Hannu Kotipalo) writes:
>Joel M. Hoffman (joel@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
>: > Somebody wrote:
>: >Linux does something that is a mix between 2 and 3. I does kill a
>: >process (essentially randomly), but in practice linux will try to run
>: >with too little memory for too long, and you'll get a machine that is
[ ... ]
>:
>: -Joel
>
> Why does it not automatically make a temporal swap file?
> ^^^^^^^^
> -=Nite=-
Message from root (tty1): Ahead, Mr. Sulu, Warp Factor Five!
But, seriously, try putting 'ulimit -d 8000' in your .profile.
Processes that hog memory will die. Kills xv like a charm.
jim