Note that, depending on the resource being limited, ulimit may cause the process to crash or shut down when that resource hits the limit.
-- Raul On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 9:54 AM David Lambert <b49p23t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To avoid this situation is it possible to limit memory and cpu time on > the process? > > bash provides ulimit, maybe DOS has similar facility. That said, I've > not gotten ulimit to work as I expect and instead increased my > computer's RAM. Then when I suspect there might be trouble I monitor > the system and manually kill errant process before it gets to the paging > state. When I was even newer with j I was pretty good at writing > sentences that would, given opportunity, consume all the memory in the > world. > > > Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 10:53:04 +0000 > > From: Richard Donovan<rsdono...@hotmail.com> > > To: J Programming<programm...@jsoftware.com> > > Subject: [Jprogramming] Avoiding J crash > > Message-ID: > > > > <cwxp123mb5250709d8d2e91951811c6fbbd...@cwxp123mb5250.gbrp123.prod.outlook.com> > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > > > Hi! > > > > Is there any way to avoid the situation whereby by error I put J into an > > infinite loop from which the only recovery is to reboot my Windows laptop? > > > > I guess that my erroneous routine is locking the CPU to such a such an > > extent that I can’t even get to run Jbreak. > > > > I quite often receive a recoverable situation when a limit has been > > exceeded but if I get the infinite loop situation I have lost my entire > > session and have to start again. > > > > I really need a global setting which limits the amount of cpu usage and > > aborts a function before it gets out of hand. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Richard > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
