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Subject: Re: [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory
To: roy@karlsbakk.net (Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:20:58 +0000 (GMT)
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> > away. My box doesn't OOM, the worst case (which I've never seen happen) is
> > a task being killed by a stack growth failing to get memory.
> 
> Would it hard to do some memory allocation statistics, so if some process
> at one point (as rsync did) goes crazy eating all memory, that would be
> detected?

man ulimit
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