Re: [Chicken-users] Segfault with large data-structures (bug)

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Segfault with large data-structures (bug)
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 23:47:39 +0100

> On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:37:42PM +0100, Felix wrote:
>> The intention is to provide some sort of soft "ulimit" at the
>> application level, in case you want to make sure a certain maximum
>> amount of memory is not exceeded. Or if you want to benchmark memory
>> consumption, or do other whacky things. So let's keep it for a while.
> 
> But why not just use ulimit?  It can be set per process, so I don't see
> the need to have a second ulimit-like limit inside each process.

Not everybody uses UNIX, you know.


cheers,
felix