sbrk(2) broken

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> The right answer is presumably to introduce a new LIMIT_SWAP, which
> limits the allocation of anonymous memory by processes, and size it to
> something like 90% of swap space by default.

Not a good solution on its own.  You need a per-process limit as well,
otherwise a malloc() bomb will still cause other processes to fail
randomly.

> Since that won't be happening before 7.0, I believe the consensus is
> to simply not MFC the changes for 7 and proceed with the release.

Thank you :)

DES
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