From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:09:48 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <28232d96bbd525fc552e6de76012b300@brasstown.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] protection against resource exhaustion Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3cfbbd32-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > i'd forgotten the added difficulty with the 32-bit kernels that plan 9 overcommits > memory. so in a low-memory situation, a process can be killed by using more > stack! I could have sworn I heard otherwise. But things sometimes are not as I think they are. Here, I'm very curious to know why I remember differently. Nemo? Lucio.