On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 00:39:42 -0400 "Perrin Harkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> If top can't figure out how much memory a process is using, I don't
> see how SizeLimit is going to. Is it possible they really are using
> that much, but a lot of it is shared via copy-on-write?
Yes, they really are using that much but nearly all of it is
shared via copy-on-write, as far as I can tell. SizeLimit is supposed
to be able to detect that situation on modern kernels if you have
Linux::Smaps installed, according to its docs. (I have only
MAX_UNSHARED_SIZE set.)
-Max
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