Re: setrlimit() extension suggestion

On Apr 27, 2:14 pm, phil-news-nos...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

If you can understand the effect as described by the suggestion, maybe you can
suggest a way to do it that does not involve a kernel change. I won't think
less of you if you cannot, because I cannot think of such a way.

It's impossible to solve a problem if you don't say what the problem
is. All you've told me is how you propose to solve the problem, and
then you've asked me how I would solve it. Well, I don't know. The
reason I don't know is because I don't know what the problem is.

If you cannot understand the effect as described, then I don't see any purpose
in continuing the discussion with you. But I highly doubt this is the issue.
I suspect it is more likely you do work more at the system level and less at
the application level and have simply never encounted the need because of the
lesser exposure. You and I frequently do not see things the same way, and
this might be at least one of the reasons why.

I understand the effect, I just don't understand the reason you would
want that effect. It seems to me that such an effect would be useless
because of the three bears problem I already explained. Settings of,
say, 30 seconds would be too long because a process running away for
30 seconds would make an interactive machine useless. Settings of,
say, 4 minutes would be too short because it would be too hard to make
long-running processes. These two settings overlap in the wrong way.

So I don't understand why you would ever want the effect this setting
gives you. There may or may not be other good ways to get this same
effect, but what I don't see is why it matters.

DS
.

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