Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> writes:

> Tim Connors wrote:
>> Or what about
>> automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again
>> (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing
>> this)?
>
>     Kinda defeats the purpose of limiting the amount of space the process
> uses.  I mean which is better, a clear error message or the machine being
> dropped into swap hell?

This is a prevention of using up all memory? That is the first time
someone claimed that that I saw.

What I saw was always that it was not trivial to make apt-get resize
that mmap on the fly and keep working. Which makes quite a joke about
it being "dynamic".

MfG
        Goswin