Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753869Ab1BPSQ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:16:27 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com ([209.85.216.181]:61269 "EHLO mail-qy0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750857Ab1BPSQY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:16:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [141.3.215.46] In-Reply-To: <20110209191755.GE9533@thunk.org> References: <1297168678.2190.21.camel@marvin> <1297269019.4888.91.camel@marvin> <20110209191755.GE9533@thunk.org> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:16:22 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mmap, the language go, problems with the linux kernel From: Hannes Frederic Sowa To: "Ted Ts'o" , Martin Capitanio , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, golang-dev , Russ Cox , Alan Cox , Albert Strasheim Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 845 Lines: 17 On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > AIX and the BSD's don't implement RLIMIT_AS at all.  Solaris does, but > the man page just says "total available memory", again without > specifying what that means.  Solaris also has a RLIMIT_VMEM, which is > the total amount of virtual address space, so apparently Solaris seems > to think that RLIMIT_VMEM and RLIMIT_AS are different things. Actually, no: | ./uts/common/sys/resource.h:#define RLIMIT_AS RLIMIT_VMEM They have a userland daemon called rcapd which enforces rss-limits on process-groups by paging out their data. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/