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From: Timothy Watson <tmwatson@muffin.rs.itd.umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux needs more work to be done!
Date: 05 Jul 1997 11:54:05 -0400
Organization: What am I doing?
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robert@zen.humbug.org.au (Robert Brockway) writes:
> Checkout limit or ulimit (depending on your shell).  Look particluarly at
> memory limits.  This is an old trick.  Any half decent setup unix won't
> notice it once forking stops when the process limit is hit :-)
> Ergo, process limits are good too.

Linux has some non-functional ulimit code.

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