On Jan 26, 2015, at 4:33 PM, arisawa <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> many of resource exhaustion come from careless programming.
> I would like such processes to be killed immediately.
> throwing up to broken state might be better.
> I prefer an option to plan9.ini that enable resrcwait(), because the call breaks
> traditional programming style and probably we need more time to have 
> right solution.

Not plan9.ini, as that's intel specific.  But perhaps a global runtime switch to turn this on and off (something under /dev/cpu*?), and a corresponding switch in the /proc/*/ctl interface that would let individual processes say what's best for them?