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.
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