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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Federico Sevilla III <jijo@free.net.ph>
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Subject: Re: rlimits and non overcommit (was: Very large font size ...) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:57:33 +0800."
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:57:33 +0800 (PHT), 
Federico Sevilla III <jijo@free.net.ph> 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.

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