Hi,
It might not be forking. freeamp might be a multithreaded
app....and the processess you see are the different threads.
readup Posix threads on linux.
What about memory access restrictions?...anyone?
Soj.
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a small problem. I want to restrict maximum memory allocated to a
> program. I don't want any damn program to eat as much memory as it can get
> allocated. Particularly after I tried Opera, which fills memory like water fills
> road in rainy season. On a 64 MB/256MB Swap machine, I don't want a message
> 'Fork() not enough memory' when I issue kill of ps on command prompt.
>
> Secondly if anybody has used freeamp, it forks itself around 10 times and hogs
> all the memory. I searched code for fork(). Only place it has fork() is when you
> open a site using a browser etc. It does not fork in normal situation. Is there
> any other way of creating child processes?
>
> Bye
> Shridhar
>
>
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