Am 05.01.2008 um 03:47 schrieb Rob Landley:
You can disable overcommit and give the system an egregious amount
of swap
space, but then your pathological case is the system going into swap
thrashing la-la land and essentially freezing (advancing at 0.1% of
its
normal rate, if that, for _hours_) instead of killing some runaway
processes
(or rebooting) and recovering.
Quite obviously, we have very different expectations on what
executables should do. I expect code to be as reliable as possible,
to be careful when aquiring resources and if a process would ever
happen to make my computer spontanuously reboot, I'd throw that
binary as far away as possible and warn everybody else not to even
touch this thing.
One of the major reasons to run emulators is to protect against such
sloppy code, btw.
Markus
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