sbrk(2) broken

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> 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.

That was what I had in mind, the above should read RLIMIT_SWAP.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge