On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 00:04 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Havoc Pennington (hp@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Maybe a cap on process size, so there can be 1G virtual memory but an > > individual app can only use 512M? Maybe when a process reaches 512M we > > could suspend it and ask the user whether to > > let it grow further? > > You can set rlimits; you can also turn off overcommit. Doesn't help > the yum/rpm case, of course. Can we do either of those things by default/automatically in appropriate cases? Havoc
