Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Steve Lamb wrote:
> 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?
It's not that clear!
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TimC
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