[Haskell-cafe] 1TB vsize for all haskell processes?

[Branimir Maksimovic]

Indeed, I have overcommit 48GB max. No problem running haskell programs.



On 10/18/2016 12:31 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
> As far as I know, this behaviour should not be affected by overcommit 
> as the unused pages are all mapped with PROT_NONE and thus do not 
> count towards the commit limit as they cannot be used without the 
> mapping being changed. `ulimit -v` (aka RLIMIT_AS) however limits the 
> actual address space size, and so this does count towards that (as do 
> mmap()ed files and other such virtual mappings that do not count 
> towards the commit limit).
>
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 at 11:39 Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me 
> <mailto:mail at nh2.me>> wrote:
>
>     I, too, found this change a bit problematic btw: It means I can no
>     longer run Haskell on systems where memory overcommit is disabled.
>
>     For example, I used to run my shell with an appropriate `ulimit -v` to
>     guarantee that a single program can't force me into swapping; I can no
>     longer do that.
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