On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Neil Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Linux provides the setrlimit() system call for this purpose -- you could
> either call it as a wrapper around lilypond, or hack it into a de-fanged
> version of Lilypond.
>
> If you're going to be running an auxiliary rendering process or special-use
> server anyway, a few moments Googling finds the "softlimit" program,
> provided as part of the daemontools package, which looks like it is intended
> for providing the sort of limited sandboxing required here.
>
Yes, that sort of thing is what I meant by limiting CPU/mem usage on
the MW extension side. However, someone would have to actually do
that, as well as cleaning up the other coding style issues that I seem
to recall were floating around Extension:LilyPond in its current
state. So far, I don't believe anyone has actually shown themselves
willing to do that work.

Roan

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