On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Chris Green wrote:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 06:50:26PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:I was still running rxvt v. 2.7.1 on my Solaris server. A user's rxvt process managed to fill every bit of swap which made it so that I could not start any new processes - not even to see what was running. I had to create more swap space, then find the errant process. Really nasty.
I'm still running rxvt version 2.6.2 on our Solaris systems here and I've never seen anything like that. On my desktop Sparc Ultra I have eight or so rxvt windows running all day with no problems (plus any I start up temporarily).
Well, It never happened to me either, until yesterday. One of my friends pointed out that I can use 'ulimit' or 'limit' to prevent a process from overwhelming the system. I plan to do that.
Mike
