On Thursday 20 December 2007 09:38:46 am Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Thursday 2007-12-20 at 09:22 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Even if one nices and ionices beagle, there still is the matter of swap > > space getting filled. Usually it is when that happens when ugly thoughts > > against the developers spring to life. is there a "swapnice" or something > > for control of max swap space an app can use? > > If an application need memory, there is no memory free, and there is swap, > the kernel will give it as much as it wants - unless you limit it with > ulimit and friends. > > -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R.
a quick "info ulimit" reveals that perhaps the option RLIMIT_RSS can tell beagle to not fill all ram and swap, no? if so, then a tiny little script could totally control every aspect of resourse utilization by beagle. has anyone tried that? even i could do a small script with nice, ionice and ulimit only... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
