On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 15:35 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <1303435546.3090.3.ca...@zircon.lan.walnut.gen.nz>, Richard Hector
> wrote:
> >On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 12:04 +0200, Axel Freyn wrote:
> >> But the principal problem is: each of those limits/protections
> reduces
> >> the usability
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote at 2011-04-22 15:35 -0500:
> I turn off over-commit on all of my systems. I'd rather have malloc fail and
> let the userland handle things (possibly by crashing!) than have the semi-
> predictable OOM killer set loose.
Yes, I turn off overcommit as well. Before I st
In <1303435546.3090.3.ca...@zircon.lan.walnut.gen.nz>, Richard Hector wrote:
>On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 12:04 +0200, Axel Freyn wrote:
>> But the principal problem is: each of those limits/protections reduces
>> the usability (e.g. if you have 2GB Ram, and you limit eclipse to 2GB,
>> it will be killed
Thank you, Boyd, that was just the sort of answer I was looking for. I tried
using Ctrl+Alt+F1 to drop into a terminal but, again, it wasn't responsive.
I'll commit your suggestions to memory for the next time the system locks up.
You touched on the crux of my complaint: sure, I expect the odd
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 12:04 +0200, Axel Freyn wrote:
> But the principal problem is: each of those limits/protections reduces
> the usability (e.g. if you have 2GB Ram, and you limit eclipse to 2GB,
> it will be killed by the Kernel as soon as it tries to use 2GB and 1
> byte from the SWAP
Really
In <4dae819c.8020...@biotec.tu-dresden.de>, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
>just a simple forkbomb will make your OS unusable ...
It shouldn't. When I first got my current hardware up and running, I fork
bombed myself and then recovered just to prove the OS and hardware could
handle it. I was able t
On 04/19/2011 09:57 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote:
Good evening,
I do mean this earnestly and, despite my frustration, I am not trying
to flame the good people of Debian, GNU or Linux. Nevertheless, I
have to ask: why is it that in 2011, the world's greatest operating
system lets Eclipse seize contro
Thank you for your reply, Axel; perfect answer. Now that I know that
these features of Linux exist I can go hunt them down and figure out
how to use them and stop this from happening again (like it did after
I sent my original e-mail).
With thanks again,
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Apropos this discussion:
The original poster does have a point: resource allocation and process
isolation are core o/s functions.
I've never really given a lot of thought to the details - for most of
the servers I've set up over the years, everything has pretty much just
worked (under Solar
on 01:38 Wed 20 Apr, Borden Rhodes (j...@bordenrhodes.com) wrote:
> Thank you for your reply and your consolation that other people are
> equally miffed with Eclipse. My question, though, is about Linux
> control systems. Is one of the kernel's design goals to manage system
> resources to preven
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:57:19PM -0400, Borden Rhodes wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> I do mean this earnestly and, despite my frustration, I am not trying
> to flame the good people of Debian, GNU or Linux. Nevertheless, I
> have to ask: why is it that in 2011, the world's greatest operating
>
On 04/20/2011 07:38 AM, Borden Rhodes wrote:
Thank you for your reply and your consolation that other people are
equally miffed with Eclipse. My question, though, is about Linux
control systems. Is one of the kernel's design goals to manage system
resources to prevent a buggy program from cripp
On 20 April 2011 14:16, Paul E Condon wrote:
Enormous Probably the second largest one I've done since I've been
> back!
>
> But given your experience with Eclipse, I hope you are developing a healthy
> scepticism about proposals to have elections voted and votes counted on the
> Internet. Imag
Thank you for your reply and your consolation that other people are
equally miffed with Eclipse. My question, though, is about Linux
control systems. Is one of the kernel's design goals to manage system
resources to prevent a buggy program from crippling the system and
forcing a hard restart? If
On 20110419_225719, Borden Rhodes wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> I do mean this earnestly and, despite my frustration, I am not trying
> to flame the good people of Debian, GNU or Linux. Nevertheless, I
> have to ask: why is it that in 2011, the world's greatest operating
> system lets Eclipse seize
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