Ubuntu
pam package

no memory limits set

Bug #40746 reported by devvv
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Bug Description

I just played around with GIMP and it crashed, consuming all available memory and much more. This resulted in an endless clattering of my hard disk and Ubuntu was rendered useless for at least 5 minutes. Other people would have reset there computer because they would have thought it crashed, too. Maybe there should be some memory limits so that such things can't happen.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

SUSE seems to have set up their distro to have various ulmits but the problem is that there are some genuine cases where programs gobble up a lot of memory which then just gets swapped out so it's hard to know what a good default is...

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devvv (devvv) wrote :

I don't know what's better. Maybe we could set the limit to 1 GB or something, or the installer (expert mode) could ask which limits should be used.

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