Re: rlimits and non overcommit

[Federico Sevilla III]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 at 16:11, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:57:33 +0800 (PHT),
> Federico Sevilla III <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 at 06:39, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> > check to prevent such large sizes from crashing X and/or the X Font
> >> > Server, I'm alarmed by (1) the way the X font server allows itself to
> >> > be crashed like this, and (2) the way the entire Linux kernel seems to
> >> > have been unable to handle the situation. While having a central
> >> > company or
> >>
> >> So turn on the features to conrol it. Set rlimits on the xfs server and
> >> enable non overcommit (-ac kernel)
> >
> >I am using SGI's XFS, and I think they follow Marcelo's kernels for the
>
> SGI's XFS != xfs server.  SGI XFS == journalling filesystem.
> xfs server == font server for the X windowing system.

Argh. And we get hit by similarly-named projects. :(

To clarify: I wanted to know if there were plans of getting non overcommit
from the AC tree into Marcelo's mainline 2.4 tree, because I use SGI's XFS
(journalling filesystem), and thus use the -xfs kernel tree, which follows
-marcelo and not -ac.

Apologies.

 --> Jijo

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