RE: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
13 Sep 2002 00:08:37 +0100


On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 22:15, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 12 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Because I've run real world large systems before. Ulimit is at best a
> > handy little toy for stopping web server accidents.
>
> Only if you assume that a bunch of users tries very hard to use up all the
> resources...

You've never run a large machine have you

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