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Warp wrote:
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> Francois Dispot <woz### [at] club-internet fr> wrote:
> If it's a basic unix system, there shouldn't be any danger.
> I have run out of memory several times (even when running povray) and
> nothing special has happened. The program just ended with an "out of memory".
Wow, Solaris seems to be a lucky OS...
If you start a hard-core swapping session, and several processes request
memory at the same time, you cannot guess which one will get the "out of
memory" problem first. When this happens, I usually lose my rc5 proxy
server and other relatively useless things like ntpd, nothing lethal.
> In Unix you can also limit the amount of memory a user can allocate.
This is exactly what I wrote (ulimit)
> "The derivative of sin(2x) is cos(2x)" - Matt Giwer
;-))
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